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NASA's TESS Mission Hopes to Find Exoplanets Beyond Our Solar System
This artistÕs impression shows the planet orbiting the Sun-like star HD 85512 in the southern constellation of Vela (The Sail). This planet is one of sixteen super-Earths discovered by the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory. This planet, which is about 3.6 times as massive as the Earth, lies at the edge of the habitable zone around the star, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, could potentially exist. This rocky super-Earth is an illustration of the type of planets future telescopes, like NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and James Webb, hope to find outside our solar system. TESS, slated to launch on April 16, 2018, is the next step in the search for planets outside of our solar system, including those that could support life. The mission will find exoplanets that periodically block part of the light from their host stars; events called transits. TESS will survey 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun to search for transiting exoplanets. NASA/ESO/UPI

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NASA's TESS Mission Hopes to Find Exoplanets Beyond Our Solar System
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