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With TESS scheduled to launch, Kathleen McKiernan of The Boston Herald spoke with postdoctoral fellow Jennifer Burt and TESS researcher Natalia Guerrero, both at MIT's Kavli Institute. “It is NASA’s next exoplanet hunter,” said Burt of the MIT-led NASA mission.

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