The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is the NASA's Kepler Telescope successor. Its mission is to help mankind find another habitable planet like Earth.
TESS will be introduced next year. Its capability to monitor the outer space is better than the Kepler, which identified over 2,000 exoplanets. Kepler can watch 100,000 stars in one patch each day. On the other hand, TESS can visualize the entire sky observing for brightest stars, according to Nature World News. It will be sent to outer space as soon as Kepler retires.
TESS has also the ability to examine the light from a variety of stars, this includes the M stars. These are the cooler and smaller stars that the solar-type stars and they are numerous in the galaxy, according to Kavli Foundation. It will also record the brightest and nearest main sequence stars accommodating transiting exoplanets.
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