NASA Satellite Discovers 'Second Earth'

www.popularmechanics.com ^ | Jan 8, 2020 | By Jennifer Leman

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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

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XO Planet Ping!....................

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MORE INFO HERE:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-tess-planet-hunter-finds-its-first-earth-size-world-in-habitable-zone/

[dhs12345]

Tatooine? Cool. Maybe they'll find Jabba The Hutt. Unlikely though because that “a long time ago” or so we are told.

[ocrp1982]

I prefer VSOP myself.

[struggle]

Please, not another Avatar movie!

[Red Badger]

I see what you did there....................

[BenLurkin]

Terra Nova

[cuban leaf]

I think they may find the edge of the Matrix.

[MNJohnnie]

He’s dead Jim

[Georgia Girl 2]

So if we move there will the muslims and progressives follow? 😐

[dhs12345]

Gee, everyone is dead....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH7KYmGnj40

[NFHale]

Good.

Now we have a place we can send all the Libs to, so they make their own socialist hellhol... err, utopia there, all by themselves.

[Red Badger]

We should call it ‘New Mecca’......................

[Bob434]

of course they will- they can never be satisfied leaving well enough alone

[Bob434]

We’ll send them there WITH a copy of the Constitution to give them something to concentrate their vile hatred on for the next few 1000 years-

[Georgia Girl 2]

😂😂

[gathersnomoss]

We don’t need another Uranus. There are too many as it is.

[polymuser]

Deciphered their first message: “Be Sure To Drink Your Ovaltine.”

[Buckeye McFrog]

Cool! Now, let’s pack-up all of the climate change extremists and send them there.