Goodbye Kepler, hello TESS: Passing the baton in the search for distant planets
- Written by Jason Steffen, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Imagined view from Kepler-10b, a planet that orbits one of the 150,000 stars that the Kepler spacecraft is monitoring.NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry, CC BY
For centuries, human beings have wondered about the possibility of other Earths orbiting distant stars. Perhaps some of these alien worlds would harbor strange forms of life or have unique and...
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