Artwork of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). TESS was launched by NASA in April 2018, the successor to Kepler. It has a two-year mission, during which it will be hunting for extrasolar planets transiting their stars. It is expected to find around 20000 planets. At the time of its launch, 3800 exoplanet were known. | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Garlick, Mark |
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