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A New List Of Stars Shows Us Where To Look For Earth-Like Planets
Astronomers have created a catalogue of 1,822 nearby stars around which the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission might spot planets receiving Earth-like levels of starlight. This is a crucial step in humanity’s search for an Earth-like, potentially habitable exoplanet.
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NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope Not Dead Yet, May Even Have Another Exoplanet Survey Left In It
NASA’s $US600 ($811) million Kepler space telescope, which is more or less running on thruster fuel fumes nearly a decade after its launch in 2009, woke up from a four-week hibernation phase on Thursday and is transmitting data back to Earth, Space.com reported on Friday. If all goes well, it may even be capable of…
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NASA’s New Exoplanet Hunter Releases Incredible First Image
On the way to its final orbit around Earth, NASA’s planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has sailed by the moon and snapped its first picture of space. We’ve said several times that TESS would be able to look at 200,000 stars in the 300 light-years around the Earth – but maybe this new shot…
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How To Watch: NASA and Space X’s Planet Hunting Telescope Launch
NASA are about to launch a planet-hunting telescope on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. After missing their launch window back on March 20 – they’re going to give it another crack. Here’s how and when you can watch it happen.