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NASA's TESS spacecraft is finding hundreds of exoplanets – and is poised to find thousands more

  • Written by Daniel Apai, Associate Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona
This artist's impression shows a view of the planet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the solar system. NASA/ESO/M. Kornmesser

Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by several thousand planets. About a thousand of these extrasolar planets – known as...

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