Space

Planet Spotting with TESS

Space, Technology / Isabel Kain / March 10, 2018

Scientists studying exoplanets are about to take a step into the future with the launch of NASA’s newest darling, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Once launched in April 2018, TESS will be able to detect exoplanets using the transit method, one of several methods astronomers use to detect planets around other stars. When a […]

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A Better Sense of Our Place in Space

Space / NU Sci Staff / March 25, 2015

A Better Sense of Our Place in Space By Megan Wassick, Undeclared, 2018 Where in the universe are we? …well, yes, we’re in Massachusetts. But think bigger than that: beyond the United States or even North America or the Earth. Earth is in the Solar System, the Solar System in the Milky Way — but what is bigger

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