MIT aims to search for Earth-like planets with Google's help

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An artists representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background. Image courtesy TESS Team
An artist's representation of a proposed satellite that would be used to view distant planets. A planet is transiting a star in the background. Image courtesy / TESS Team

MIT scientists are designing a satellite-based observatory that they say could for the first time provide a sensitive survey of the entire sky to search for planets outside the solar system that appear to cross in front of bright stars. The system could rapidly discover hundreds of planets similar to the Earth.


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