This wide - field view of
the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
Not exact matches
Following a novel, looping path that gives it an unobstructed view, the orbiting TESS will scan the
sky for planets
around nearby
bright stars.
Alternatively, an MIT - led group of astronomers is developing the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, a spacecraft containing an array of telescopes that would survey the entire
sky, looking for exoplanets in the habitable zone
around the nearest and
brightest stars.
SS: TESS will do an all -
sky survey to find rocky worlds
around the
bright, closest M -
stars [red dwarfs that are common and smaller than the sun — and therefore more likely to reveal the shadows cast by planets], about 500,000
stars.
According to a NASA announcement on Friday, «TESS will use an array of telescopes to perform an all -
sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets ranging from Earth - sized to gas giants, in orbit
around the nearest and
brightest stars in the
sky.
The current and next - generation space - based transit surveys, K2 and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), are focused on finding large planets on short orbits (less than 75 days)
around the
brightest stars in the
sky.
The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at MKI, will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all -
sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit
around the
brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.
The project, led by principal investigator George Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) will use an array of wide - field cameras to perform an all -
sky survey to discover transiting exoplanets, ranging from Earth - sized planets to gas giants, in orbit
around the
brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood.
If everything goes according to plan, the observatory will conduct a two - year mission to survey more than 85 percent of the
sky, searching for exoplanets
around bright stars in the 300 - light - year distance range.