Plato stands for planetary transits and oscillations of stars. TESS will see the entire sky, but not quite to the depth in space that Kepler did. Plato has 24 telescopes on one big platform. It's a telescope instrument that is being built by European Space Agency right now.
What is a starquake? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic co-host Matt Kirshen explore asteroseismology, the sun, and what’s happening on the insides of stars with astrophysicist Conny Aerts.
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