Open AccessExoplanet-Hunting Telescope Launches
Author(s) -
Kimberly Cartier
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2018eo096785
Subject(s) - exoplanet , telescope , astrobiology , astronomy , physics , planet
Scanning for traces of faraway worlds, TESS will make observations over an area hundreds of times larger than that observed by its predecessor, the Kepler Space Telescope.