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Friday, April 12, 2013

If Earth 2 Exists, TESS Will Find It [feedly]

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The Kepler telescope that launched in 2009 is is no slouch when it comes to hunting for exoplanets. The system is charged with investigating the more than 145,000 stars within its view in the hopes of finding habitable planets but those stars constitute just 0.28 percent of the sky. Luckily, there's a new orbital telescope from MIT that will survey the rest. More »