Saturday, 28 July 2018

NASA's next-gen exoplanet hunter gets to work

Artist's concept of TESS

NASA's next-generation exoplanet hunter began its science mission this week. On July 25, the unmanned Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) got to work on its two-year whole-sky survey to seek out planets outside our solar system by looking at the nearest and brightest stars for signs of changes in their brightness, indicating that a planet or other orbiting body is passing in front of them.

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