Abstract:The US Space Agency has launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, the TESS satellite, which will search for planets near our solar system and study them in detail. "TESS will significantly increase the number of planets studied," said George Ricker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, before launching. "It will double the number of planets we've seen and detected with the Kepler telescope," he added. The Kepler Space Observatory has discovered 2,650, about 70% of the total worlds outside the solar s… Show more
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