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After two astonishing years, NASA’s TESS is onto the next exoplanet hunt – SlashGear
Just over two years after it first started hunting for new exoplanets, NASA’s TESS has completed its primary mission – now, it’s on to the next. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Sa…
Just over two years after it first started hunting for new exoplanets, NASA’s TESS has completed its primary mission – now, it’s on to the next. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite only began snapping images of the galaxy back in August 2018, and now NASA has a huge database of high-resolution imaging of distant stars.
It’s not just fodder for screensavers, either. TESS’ observations are looking for transits specifically, the slight dimming of a star’s light as a planet in orbit around i…
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