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SUMMARY:Exploring Planets Orbiting Nearby Stars - Courtney Dressing (Berke
 ley)
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CONTACT:Dr Annelies Mortier
DESCRIPTION:The NASA Kepler mission revealed that our Galaxy is teeming wi
 th planetary systems and that Earth-sized planets are common\, but most of
  the planets detected by Kepler orbit stars that are too faint to permit d
 etailed study. Excitingly\, the NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
  (TESS) launched in April 2018 and is finding hundreds of small planets or
 biting stars that are much closer and brighter. Unlike the Kepler planets\
 , the TESS planets are ideal targets for follow-up observations to determi
 ne their masses\, compositions\, and atmospheric properties. I will descri
 be how in-depth analyses of the TESS planets are allowing us to probe the 
 compositional diversity of small planets\, investigate the formation of pl
 anetary systems\, and set the stage for the next phase of exoplanet explor
 ation: the quest for biosignatures in the atmospheres of strange new world
 s.
LOCATION:ONLINE - Details will be sent by email
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