Click above to listen to part 2 of Nobel Efforts, featuring Jeffrey Smith, data scientist and a principal investigator for TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) at the SETI Institute, describing how the new space telescope will aid in the search for nearby exoplanets.

Nobel Efforts part 1: Roy Gould / Discovering Exoplanets 
​Nobel Efforts part 3: David Ibbett / Exoplanetary Music (also featuring Roy Gould)

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