Time Flies. NASA Releases a Mosaic of TESS’ View of the Northern Sky After Two Years of Operation
Time Flies. NASA Releases a Mosaic of TESS’ View of the Northern Sky After Two Years of Operation
By Evan Gough
October 8, 2020 at 11:38PM
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By Evan Gough
NASA’s TESS planet-finding spacecraft completed its primary mission about 3 months ago. TESS’s (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) job was to search the brightest stars nearest to Earth for transiting exoplanets. It found 74 confirmed exoplanets, with another ~1200 candidates awaiting confirmation. It surveyed 75% of the sky during its two-year primary mission, and now NASA …
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