NASA's planet-hunter TESS makes first discoveries

By Ashley Strickland, CNN

Updated 0253 GMT (1053 HKT) January 9, 2019

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NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, slated to launch in the mid-2020s, has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA's first chief astronomer.
Photos: Cool unmanned space missions
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope, slated to launch in the mid-2020s, has been named the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, after NASA's first chief astronomer.
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This is an artist's concept of the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will investigate Jupiter's icy moon.
Photos: Cool unmanned space missions
This is an artist's concept of the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will investigate Jupiter's icy moon.
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