| Protesters Throw A Fiesta To Razz Lawyer Who Ranted At Spanish Speakers Posted: 18 May 2018 09:32 PM PDT  > Mariachi band continues #AaronSchlossberg #hablamosespanol @NYDailyNews
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| China air force lands bombers on South China Sea island Posted: 19 May 2018 12:10 AM PDT  China's air force has landed bombers on islands and reefs in the South China Sea as part of a training exercise in the disputed region, it said in a statement. "A division of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) recently organized multiple bombers such as the H-6K to conduct take-off and landing training on islands and reefs in the South China Sea in order to improve our ability to 'reach all territory, conduct strikes at any time and strike in all directions'," it said in the statement issued on Friday. It said the pilot of the H-6K bomber conducted assault training on a designated sea target and then carried out take-offs and landings at an airport in the area, describing the exercise as preparation for "the West Pacific and the battle for the South China Sea".
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| More than 100 people killed as passenger plane crashes in Cuba Posted: 18 May 2018 06:26 PM PDT  An ageing airliner carrying 110 people crashed shortly after take off from Havana airport in Cuba on Friday, leaving just three survivors in the country's worst aviation disaster in three decades. The 39-year-old Boeing 737 had taken off on an internal flight when it went down into a cassava field not far from the end of the runway just after midday, bursting into flames and leaving huge plumes of black smoke. A local resident told Granma, the Cuban state newspaper, that the plane crashed after it attempted to return to the airport – making a turn and clipping electricity cables, then plummeting to the ground. Miguel Diaz-Canel, the Cuban president, visited the scene immediately and said: "There is a high number of people who appear to have died. "Things have been organised, the fire has been put out, and the remains are being identified." Granma reported there was a baby aged under two on board, plus four children. The Cubana Airlines Boeing 737 had just left the Jose Marti airport when the accident happened Credit: ADALBERTO ROQUE/ AFP The paper also said that the crew was "foreign" and that there were foreigners on board, but did not give details. The three survivors were taken to the Calixto Garcia hospital, in the Vedado district of Havana. Families of those on board were asked to bring photos of their loved ones to the scene, to assist with identification. The Boeing 737 had just left the Jose Marti airport en route to the town of Holguin – a flight of around an hour and a half. The plane crashed near a school and lay in a farm field, heavily damaged and burnt, with firefighters spraying water on its smouldering remains. Miguel Diaz-Canel, visiting the crash site Credit: AFP What appeared to be one of the wings of the plane was wedged among scorched tree trunks, but the main fuselage appeared to have been entirely destroyed. Firefighters and rescue workers combed through the wreckage, but there seemed little chance of finding survivors. The plane was believed to be a Cubana airlines flight. Mercedes Vazquez, director of air traffic, told Prensa Latina that the plane was owned by Damojh - a Mexican company which operates under the name Global. At a glance | Cuba A Global employee told AP that the plane was theirs. Cuban state television had earlier claimed that the plane was owned by Blue Panorama, an Italian firm, but they denied involvement. The Cuban state carrier had suspended its own domestic flights in March owing to a shortage of aircraft, according to security site Garda World. Cubana has also taken many of its aging planes out of service in recent months due to mechanical problems. The airline is notorious among Cubans for its frequent delays and cancellations, which Cubana blames on a lack of parts and airplanes due to the US trade embargo on the island. Friday's crash was Cuba's third major fatal accident since 2010. A survivor is loaded into an ambulance Credit: AFP Last year, a Cuban military plane crashed into a hillside in the western province of Artemisa, killing eight troops on board. In November 2010, an AeroCaribbean flight from Santiago to Havana went down in bad weather as it flew over central Cuba, killing all 68 people, including 28 foreigners, in what was Cuba's worst air disaster in more than two decades. The last Cubana accident appears to have been on Sept. 4, 1989, when a chartered Cubana plane flying from Havana to Milan, Italy, went down shortly after takeoff, killing all 126 people on board, as well as at least two dozen on the ground. Cubana's director general, Capt. Hermes Hernandez Dumas, told state media last month that Cubana's domestic flights had carried 11,700 more passengers than planned between January and April 2018. It said that 64 per cent of flights had taken off on time, up from 59 per cent the previous year. "Among the difficulties created by the US trade embargo is our inability to acquire latest-generation aircraft with technology capable of guaranteeing the stability of aerial operations," he said. "Another factor is obtaining part for Cubana's aircraft."
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| Texas School Shooting Survivor Isn't Surprised This Keeps Happening Posted: 18 May 2018 11:39 AM PDT  > Heartbreaking @abc13houston interview with Santa Fe student Paige Curry
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| North Korea demands South Korea send back restaurant workers Posted: 19 May 2018 04:36 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Saturday reiterated its demands for South Korea to send back 12 North Korean restaurant workers who came to the South in 2016, saying such a move would demonstrate Seoul's willingness to improve relations.
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| Young father imprisoned in Iran: An American dream turned nightmare Posted: 18 May 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Xiyue Wang, a husband, father and Princeton University doctoral student, has been imprisoned in Iran since August 2016 on charges of espionage. He was invited to study at a foreign language institute in Tehran and was granted permission by Iran's Foreign Ministry to further his dissertation research. But President Trump's decision to withdraw the U.S. from the Iran nuclear agreement has complicated his case, along with the cases of four other Americans detained in Iran. Meanwhile back home in Princeton, N.J., his wife, Hua Qu, has been juggling her career and taking care of their 5-year-old son, all while trying to focus on her husband's case, appealing to President Trump for his release. Qu sat down with Yahoo News' Stephanie Sy to talk about her imprisoned husband and what it's like raising a son on her own.
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| Hannity Flips Out: Mueller Probe 'Is A Direct Threat To This American Republic' Posted: 17 May 2018 11:38 PM PDT  Fox News host Sean Hannity took his defense of President Donald Trump to the
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| Putin, Merkel defend Nord Stream pipeline Posted: 18 May 2018 08:36 AM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel put on a rare show of unity Friday defending the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, criticised by Ukraine and threatened by US sanctions. The two leaders held their first face-to-face meeting in a year in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi where they also discussed the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine and the Iran nuclear deal.
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| New documents suggest Las Vegas shooter was conspiracy theorist – what we know Posted: 19 May 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Stephen Paddock was the gunman who killed 58 people and wounded hundreds more last October, when he opened fire from the window of his room at the Mandalay hotel on the Las Vegas Strip. Yesterday, following legal action from news organizations, the Las Vegas police department released a trove of documents on the investigation, including statements from witnesses and victims. Mostly the documents contain harrowing accounts from victims of Stephen Paddock's shooting spree.
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| Santa Fe Shooting: Teacher Killed Left One Last Note For Her Family Posted: 19 May 2018 12:45 PM PDT  They have since framed the heartbreaking note.
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| The Royal Wedding's Order Of Service Contains A Notable Error Posted: 18 May 2018 11:48 PM PDT  Kensington Palace released the official Order of Service for the royal wedding
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| Twitter Users Pan Ted Cruz After He Tweets 'Prayers' To Santa Fe School Shooting Victims Posted: 18 May 2018 04:46 PM PDT  After Friday's school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas, a lot of people are letting
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| Meek Mill Backs Out Of Trump Event On Prison Reform Posted: 18 May 2018 09:31 AM PDT  Rapper Meek Mill withdrew from an event at the White House on Friday where he
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| Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins Iraq election Posted: 19 May 2018 05:24 AM PDT ![Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins Iraq election]( "Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins Iraq election") By Raya Jalabi and Michael Georgy BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A political bloc led by populist Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a long-time adversary of the United States who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq, has won the country's parliamentary election, the electoral commission said on Saturday. Sadr himself cannot become prime minister because he did not run in the election, though his bloc's victory puts him in a position to have a strong say in negotiations. The Victory Alliance, headed by incumbent Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, trailed in third place with 42 seats, behind the Al-Fatih bloc, which won 47 seats.
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| Cuba in mourning after deadliest air crash in nearly 30 years Posted: 19 May 2018 01:39 PM PDT  Cuba observed a weekend of national mourning for victims of its worst crash in nearly three decades that killed 110 passengers and crew. An investigation has been launched into Friday's crash of the nearly 40-year-old Boeing 737-200 leased to the national carrier Cubana de Aviacion by a Mexican company. The Boeing crashed shortly after taking off from Havana, coming down in a field near the airport and sending a thick column of acrid smoke into the air.
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| Saudi Arabia detains women's rights activists weeks before female driving ban comes to an end Posted: 18 May 2018 07:58 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia has detained several prominent female activists who campaigned for women's right to drive, taking them into custody just weeks before the decades-long driving ban finally comes to an end. Human rights groups said Loujain al-Hathloul, Eman al-Nafjan and Aziza al-Yousef - three of the most prominent voices demanding women be free to drive - were all detained on Thursday. Two male advocates for women's rights were also detained, activists said. The activists were detained as Saudi Arabia prepares for the driving ban to come to an end on June 24. The policy shift has become a symbol of the modernising drive of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and the Saudi government is eager for positive media coverage of the move. The detentions appear to be an effort by Saudi authorities to make sure they do not have to share credit for the end of the driving ban with activists who spent years campaigning for it. They may also be concerned that the women right's campaigners would use the end of the driving to call for further advances in women's freedom - like an end to the male guardianship system that severely limits Saudi women's ability to travel independently. A woman in a black niqab drives in Saudi Arabia Neither Ms Narfjan nor Ms Hathloul could be reached for comment. Ms Hathloul told The Telegraph earlier this year that shortly before Saudi authorities announced the end of the driving ban in September she was warned not to speak publicly about it. Instead, she Tweeted just the word "Alhamdulillah" in Arabic, or "Praise be to God". "Shutting up or submitting to these threats is unacceptable to me, it is not an option to stay quiet any more," she said, breaking her silence in January. "We have been quiet for too long." Ms Hathloul had been detained twice before for her activism. She and other Saudi women sometimes filmed themselves driving in defiance of the ban and published the videos online, to the fury of the government. Ms Hathloul was voted the third-most powerful Arab woman by Forbes in 2015, but was forced to quit her job that same year because of driving restrictions. Her husband, a well-known Saudi comedian who acts as her male guardian, was often out of the country meaning she had to pay for taxis to and from work. Saudi women tour a car showroom for women on January 11, 2018, in the Saudi Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Credit: AFP "The Uber and Careem applications would take more than 30 per cent of my salary. For instance I would pay 2,000-3,000 riyals (£375-560) a month to get around, while my salary was 6,000 riyals," she said. "At the end of the month I basically had nothing." It was not clear if she or any or any of the other activists had been charged with a crime. Prisoners of Conscience, a human rights group, said that two men - Mohammed al-Rabjah and Ibrahim al-Mdmyegh - had also been arrested. The driving ban has been in place since 1979 and women's rights activists have been fighting it against for it for decades. In 1990, around 50 women launched the first high profile protest by driving in a convoy around Riyadh. They were eventually stopped by police. The Saudi government under the leadership of Crown Prince Mohammed has shown itself willing to use detention as a tool against political rivals. Dozens of princes and prominent businessmen were arrested in November and detained at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh on allegations of corruption. Most were released only after agreeing to pay large sums as part of a settlement with the authorities.
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| 2019 Corvette ZR1s With Weird Exhausts Caught Lapping The 'RIng Posted: 18 May 2018 06:09 AM PDT  Chevy might be preparing for the ZR1 to set an official lap time around the Nürburgring.
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| Amal Clooney Wears a Regal Yellow Dress to Royal Wedding Posted: 19 May 2018 02:54 AM PDT  She also pulled off a bold train
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| Monitor: 11 killed in blasts inside Syria weapons warehouse Posted: 18 May 2018 12:05 PM PDT  PARIS (AP) — Blasts set off by an explosion at a weapons warehouse in central Syria killed 11 people and wounded dozens Friday, a war monitor said, amid soaring tensions between regional archenemies Israel and Iran.
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| Police: Fitness buff tried ambush attack at Trump resort Posted: 18 May 2018 03:40 PM PDT  DORAL, Fla. (AP) — A fitness buff carrying an American flag and shouting about President Donald Trump stormed the hotel lobby of Trump's Miami-area golf resort early Friday and opened fire at a chandelier. He then waited for police to arrive, and exchanged gunfire with officers who shot him in the legs and arrested him.
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| All Chilean bishops quit over child abuse scandal Posted: 18 May 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Thirty-four Chilean bishops announced their resignation Friday over a child sex abuse scandal within the Church in Chile that has come to haunt the reign of Pope Francis. "We, all the bishops present in Rome, have tendered our resignation to the Holy Father so that he may decide freely for each of us," the bishops said in a statement after three days of intense meetings with Francis at the Vatican. "We want to ask forgiveness for the pain caused to the victims, to the Pope, to God's people and to our country for the serious errors and omissions we have committed," the statement continued.
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| Dixon High School shooter used mother's gun; students return for graduation rehearsal Posted: 17 May 2018 08:39 PM PDT  The suspected gunman accused of opening fire inside Dixon High School Wednesday may have gotten the gun from his mother, officials said Thursday.
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| Exclusive: In run-up to Venezuelan vote, more soldiers dissent and desert Posted: 18 May 2018 11:34 AM PDT  By Girish Gupta and Anggy Polanco CARACAS/SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - Arrests for rebellion and desertion are rising sharply in Venezuela's armed forces, a mainstay of President Nicolas Maduro's Socialist government, amid discontent within the ranks at food shortages and dwindling salaries, according to documents and interviews with army personnel. Internal military documents reviewed by Reuters showed that the number of soldiers detained for treason, rebellion and desertion rose to 172 in the first four months of the year, up three-and-a-half times on the same period of 2017. Former military officials said the figures reflected a dramatic increase in the level of dissent within Venezuela's once-proud armed forces.
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| Blake Lively Teases Ryan Reynolds And Hugh Jackman's Bromance Posted: 18 May 2018 03:51 AM PDT  Blake Lively isn't fooled.
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| Chevrolet Silverado Adds Turbo Four-Cylinder Posted: 18 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT  A four-cylinder full-size pickup is coming, and we took it for a quick spin.
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| 2020 Mid-Engined Chevy Corvette Spied Up Close Posted: 18 May 2018 12:00 PM PDT  This is our clearest look yet.
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| Review of Hillary Clinton email probe complete Posted: 18 May 2018 03:19 PM PDT  Did Justice Department and FBI personnel break the law during their investigation? Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports.
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| 'Animals'? Trump says he'll keep using term for gang members Posted: 18 May 2018 06:02 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is defending his use of the word "animals" to describe some immigrants who enter the country illegally, saying he would continue to use the term to refer to violent gang members despite a sharp rebuke from Democratic leaders.
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| Raj Nair Is Now President and COO of Multimatic Posted: 18 May 2018 06:30 AM PDT  Nair was ousted from his role as president of Ford North America in February. Now he joins the Canadian racing company that builds the GT.
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| Texas school shooting kills 10, deadliest since Parkland Posted: 18 May 2018 08:17 PM PDT  SANTA FE, Texas (AP) — A 17-year-old armed with a shotgun and a pistol opened fire at a Houston-area high school Friday, killing 10 people, most of them students, authorities said. It was the nation's deadliest such attack since the massacre in Florida that gave rise to a campaign by teens for gun control.
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| Fujifilm set to sue Xerox soon for scrapping takeover deal Posted: 18 May 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Fujifilm Holdings Corp is planning to sue Xerox Corp soon deeming that the U.S. photocopier company has no legal right to unilaterally scrap their $6.1 billion merger, a senior Fujifilm executive said on Friday. "We are currently in talks with lawyers on the schedule for filing the lawsuit and plan to go to court as soon as possible," Chief Operating Officer Kenji Sukeno said at an earnings briefing. In January, Fujifilm and Xerox agreed to a complex deal to merge Xerox into their 56-year-old Asia joint venture Fuji Xerox and give Fujifilm control.
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| Prince Charles to walk Meghan down aisle after dad drops out Posted: 18 May 2018 04:16 AM PDT  Prince Charles will be the one to walk Meghan Markle down the aisle when she marries his son Prince Harry, palace officials said Friday as final preparations were under way on the eve of the royal wedding. The bride had initially hoped her father Thomas Markle would take on the role, but confirmed Thursday he would not attend as he is recovering from a heart operation after being caught up in a paparazzi fiasco involving staged pictures. Although many thought her mother Doria Ragland could step in, Kensington Palace said her future father-in-law would take on the responsibility at Saturday's ceremony.
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| Chevy Camaro SS Vs. Ford Mustang GT: Top-Down Tussle Posted: 18 May 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Which Pony car comes out on top, when the sun's out?
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| US readies Mideast peace plan, but threatens Palestinian aid Posted: 18 May 2018 11:54 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is aiming to roll out its much-hyped but long-delayed Middle East peace plan next month amid signs it may further alienate the Palestinians by slashing millions of dollars in funding for humanitarian and development projects in the West Bank and Gaza.
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| Ukraine leader enacts new sanctions against Russia Posted: 17 May 2018 10:53 PM PDT  Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree to enact the recently adopted decision to expand sanctions on Russian companies and entities, according to information published on the presidential website on Friday. Ukraine's council of security and defense approved in early May the sanctions that mirror those of the United States, which has blacklisted tycoons and allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Kiev has also extended existing sanctions it introduced against hundreds of Russian companies and entities in response to the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and Kremlin support for a pro-Russian separatist uprising in eastern Ukraine.
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| Grimes is legally changing her name, thanks to Elon Musk Posted: 18 May 2018 02:03 PM PDT  Elon Musk and Grimes are being the world's nerdiest couple, again. SEE ALSO: Of course Elon Musk and Grimes spawned a beautiful new meme Originally born Claire Boucher, Grimes announced on Thursday that she's legally changing her name to just c, which is the measurement for the speed of light in a vacuum. She tweeted a screenshot of the Wikipedia article about it, adding "this will be much better." Grimes also specified the name c will be lowercase and italicized. i'm legally changing my name from claire to 'c' , as in the speed of light. {☄️ lowercase and italics ��} ___ this will be much better pic.twitter.com/nOG5kNEU9O — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 Grimes/ c said that she's wanted to change her name "4ever" but her friends already call her c. Musk pointed out that her nickname "actually rox" and that she didn't need to look for another. well he's the one who pointed out that my working nickname (c) actually rox and i don't need to look further (been trying 2 change name 4ever but couldn't find a gud 1, but my friends call me c } — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 She added that she hasn't liked her given name since she "became sentient" (confirming that Musk is into manic pixie dream robots) and that her speech impediment makes it difficult to say. if u like ^_^ claire has been the bane of my existence since i became sentient... i can barely say it w my speech impediment altho c is technically worse 4 lisp haha , omg nice quiet avatar �� and general font — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 The tech mogul and indie pop artist made their relationship official at the Met Gala earlier this month after weeks of awkward Twitter flirting. Apparently they got together because of a niche joke that blended artificial intelligence and French baroque art. The couple's debut at the Met Gala — with Grimes dressed as a goth fairy queen and Musk dressed as a standard rich guy — had people wondering if we really are in a simulation. Grimes went from tweeting Elon Musk to being his date at the #MetGala SOMEBODY END THIS SIMULATION pic.twitter.com/MvKm1aZzWL — �� (@moonlightzenty) May 8, 2018 With her name change, coming up with couple names will be a little more challenging. Space C? Elon Mus c? cElon Musk? But don't worry, everyone — professionally speaking, Grimes is staying Grimes. of course, i'm just changing my legal name not the band haha �� — Grimes (@Grimezsz) May 17, 2018 She also announced that she's releasing new music "soon ish" — we're either getting a "super dark heavy ballad about fighting balrog in the center of earth that is a sex metaphor" or a "very not pg13 ethereal shadow of colossus demon nu metal song abt insomnia." Musk, being the supportive AI enthusiast boyfriend that he is, can add a few more jams to his list of favorite Grimes songs. Want more clever culture writing beamed directly to your inbox? Sign up here for the twice-weekly Click Click Click newsletter. It's fun – we promise.
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| BMW X8 Allegedly Coming As Early As 2020 Posted: 18 May 2018 03:53 AM PDT  Automakers seem to believe you can never have too many SUVs - and they're probably right considering the current market trend.
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| The first photo from NASA's planet-hunting TESS satellite is full of so many stars Posted: 18 May 2018 11:01 AM PDT  A new NASA telescope, sailing toward its assigned orbit, took a moment to look around before it starts its ultimate mission: searching the galaxy for alien planets. NASA's TESS spacecraft — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — beamed home one of its first photos taken from space, and it's a doozy. SEE ALSO: Here's how NASA's TESS will hunt for alien planets The photo, which effectively amounts to a test of one of the satellite's four cameras, contains more than 200,000 stars, NASA said. But that's only a fraction of the number of stars it will eventually study in order to find alien worlds out there circling them. A test image from NASA's TESS.Image: NASA/MIT/TESS"TESS is expected to cover more than 400 times as much sky as shown in this image with its four cameras during its initial two-year search for exoplanets," NASA said in a statement. The satellite is designed to hunt for new worlds by using the transit method, meaning that TESS will watch for minute dips in a star's light as a planet passes in front of its host star. By detecting these transits, TESS can piece together a bit about the orbits of these worlds and whether or not they might be friendly to life. In total, the satellite's field of view will include about 20 million stars that could all play host to worlds unknown. Researchers hope that TESS will be able to find at least 50 planets that are around the size of Earth during its quest. "TESS is kind of like a scout," TESS scientist Natalia Guerrero said in a statement. "We're on this scenic tour of the whole sky, and in some ways we have no idea what we will see. It's like we're making a treasure map: Here are all these cool things. Now, go after them." TESS still has a bit of a ways to go before it begins its hunt for planets outside of our solar system in earnest. It should start its search in June after scientists check to make sure that its instruments are in working order. Scientists hope that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, expected to launch in 2020, will be able to follow up on some of the results sent back to Earth by TESS. The powerful telescope — designed as the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope — is expected to be able to scope out the atmospheres of alien worlds, learning more about their composition and possible habitability. WATCH: NASA's TESS planet-finder satellite just rode a Falcon 9 to space
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