Posted on 01/09/2020 10:18:47 AM PST by Red Badger
Astronomers unveiled new insights by NASA's TESS this week at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The satellite spotted a new Earth-like exoplanet within its star's habitable zone, a new Tatooine star system, and a strange eclipse.
TESS has been working hard to uncover new corners of the universe since its launch in 2018.
Exoplanet enthusiasts, rejoice! This week, scientists revealed a series of new discoveries made by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). The telescope has spotted a number of strange new worlds circling star systems near and far, the scientists announced at the 235th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, Hawaii.
From Tatooine-like systems to habitable worlds to starry eclipses, TESS has been busy uncovering the universe's oddities since launching in 2018. A follow-up to the prolific Kepler mission, which discovered about 70 percent of the approximately 4,000 exoplanets known to science today, TESS is scheduled to scan 200,00o of the night's brightest stars for insight into their solar systems. It's expected to conduct this survey over the course of two years, focusing on small chunks of the night sky at a time.
image NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Chris Smith
There are other Hutts.
Still, she was quite a lively dancer. Wait, what?
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