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NASA’s TESS planet hunter spied 2,200 candidate worlds in its first 2 years – Space.com
A NASA spacecraft built to spot alien worlds has completed its first two years of work, and the tally is in: the mission hauled in 2,241 new exoplanet
candidates for scientists to study.
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS
) launched in April 2018, designed to spend two years poring over most of the sky. Each month, the spacecraft turns to a new strip of stars and stares, watching for the characteristic dips in brightness caused by a planet crossing between star and telescope. In a…
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