First Author's Institution: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
TESS and Dr. Emily Gilbert have done it again! Three years ago, Dr. Gilbert, then a graduate student, and her team found the first Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of a TESS exoplanet system called TOI-700.
Alpha Centauri planets? TOLIMAN will search
Peter Tuthill is an expert in astrophysical imaging at the University of Sydney in Australia. He is leading the mission.
Alpha Centauri is just the first planned target for TOLIMAN, which is short for Telescope for Orbit Locus Interferometric Monitoring of our Astronomical Neighborhood. Yes, we said “neighborhood.” Its stated goal is to focus on stars within 10 light-years of our sun.
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