NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system — and …read more Source:: Science
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Confirmation of toasty TESS planet leads to surprising find of promising world
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•A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed the way to additional worlds orbiting the same star, one of which is located in the …read more Source:: Science
TESS discovers three new planets nearby, including temperate ‘sub-Neptune’
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•NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. The planets orbit a star just 73 light …read more Source:: Science
Supernova observation first of its kind using NASA satellite
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•Researchers have published findings about a supernova observed using TESS, adding new insights to long-held theories about the elements left behind after a white dwarf star explodes into a supernova. …read more Source:: Science