Tag: Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
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Nation & World
High schoolers discover four exoplanets through Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program
At the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian mentorship program, two students discovered four new exoplanets about 200-light-years away from Earth.
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Nation & World
The scope of TESS
Harvard astronomer David Latham explains his role as science program director for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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Nation & World
The search for other Earths
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are drafting the target list for NASA’s next planet-finding telescope, the orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which will search the Earth’s galactic neighborhood for planets that might support life.