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When NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launches from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on a mission to identify potentially habitable planets orbiting nearby stars, it will carry with it a map, of sorts, developed right here at Vanderbilt. Keivan Stassun, Stevenson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, serves as a deputy principal investigator on the mission, tasked with identifying the most promising stars for TESS to target.

“The TESS mission represents a dream come true for me and for the many scientists and engineers who have worked on the mission,” said Stassun. “Our ambition is to not only detect hundreds of Earth-like worlds in other solar systems, but to find them around our closest neighboring solar systems.”
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