The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)-recently chosen by NASA for possible launch in 2017-will aim to survey the brightest stars in the sun's neighborhood using an array of wide-field cameras in search of exoplanets ranging from gas giants to extraterrestrial Earths in habitable zones. Some of those planets, researchers hope, will be candidates for follow-up studies of their atmospheres by the James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018.
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机译：美国宇航局最近选择在2017年发射的过境系外行星观测卫星（TESS），其目的是使用一系列广角相机对太阳附近最亮的恒星进行观测，以寻找系外行星，从天然气巨星到地球外行星宜居区域。研究人员希望，其中一些行星将成为詹姆斯·韦伯太空望远镜（James Webb Space Telescope）定于2018年发射的有关其大气的后续研究的候选人。
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