NASA TESS spacecraft has been in space for almost a year now, and it powerful imaging tools are definitely being put to work. As we saw with last year’s first batch of snapshots from NASA, TESS is capable of surveying huge portions of the sky in great detail, and that work just payed off in a big way.
TESS, which stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, detects exoplanets by detecting changes in the brightness of the stars those planets orbit. In a new paper, researchers explain how the study of stars led to what is thought to be the first major exoplanet discovery by TESS.
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