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TESS’ four cameras (yellow, orange, red, and purple) are is designed to cover nearly the entire sky every two years. The newer telescope observes each of 13 sectors, measuring 24° by 96 ...
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS - a super-powerful orbiting telescope that scouts the sky for alien worlds - spotted a new planet circling a nearby star in the Hydra ...
Not only is there a decade of Kepler data to sort though still, but NASA’s next generation planet hunting telescope, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is already in space.
Unfortunately, however, neither TESS nor other professional telescopes have the luxury of time to study every suspect in detail. This is where amateur astronomers come in. Amateur astronomers ...
NASA launched its most powerful planet-hunting telescope to date on April 18, but it's taken the spacecraft months of maneuvering to reach a crucial sweet spot. On July 25, TESS - short for ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Scientists have discovered two “super-Earth” exoplanets, one of ...