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Astronomers are poring over the candidates from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to confirm how many are bona fide planets.
Astronomers are studying the first batch of possible planets spotted by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which hunts for worlds around nearby bright stars. The ‘TESS Objects of Interest’, released to other scientists for follow-up observations on 5 September, include dozens of planetary candidates.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-06194-7
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Update 07 September 2018: This story has been updated with comments from George Ricker at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
