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NASA’s TESS exoplanet-hunting space telescope wraps up primary mission – Space.com
66 confirmed exoplanets, 2,100 candidates and the search goes on.
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting TESS space telescope
is done with its primary mission, but its search for strange new worlds goes on.
TESS (short for “Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite”) wrapped up its two-year primary mission on July 4, having discovered 66 confirmed alien planets
and nearly 2,100 “candidates” that scientists still need to vet, NASA officials said.
TESS continues to study the heavens, however, on an extended mission that runs through September 2022.
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