Sentences with phrase «transiting nearby bright stars»
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On 16 April, the agency plans to launch the US$ 337 - million Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which will scrutinize 200,000 nearby bright stars for signs of orbiting planets.
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is designed to spot planets orbiting nearby bright stars
Plugging in the numbers, the punch line is: If there is a rocky planet transiting a nearby bright M - star with signs of life in its atmosphere, we will be able to find it.
TESS is a NASA mission scheduled for launch in 2017, while PLATO is to be launched in 2024 by the European Space Agency; both will search for transiting terrestrial planets around nearby bright stars.
NASA's newest satellite, TESS (the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), scheduled for launch on April 16, 2018, will extend the hunt for small, rocky planets around nearby, bright stars.