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Emerging Technologies
Hot enough to boil metal: exoplanets explained
NASA is launching TESS, a new satellite designed to find and analyse nearby exoplanets.
Pat Brennan is a science writer for NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program. He joined JPL in 2015 after a 30-year career as a newspaper journalist.