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This is how we look for planets outside of our solar system

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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite will scan almost the entire sky by looking at closer and brighter stars.

It will find and measure the sizes of dozens of small nearby planets best suited for detailed investigation by powerful telescopes on the ground and in space, like the future James Webb Space Telescope.

It might finally begin to answer the question of whether Earth is alone.

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English

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