https://freerepublic.com/tag/tic393818343b/ en-us Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:05:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4261078/posts ...two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, have combined forces to confirm a new planetary discovery—a toasty "warm Jupiter."...Planets around other stars, called exoplanets, sometimes block the light from the stars they orbit. When this happens, it's called a "transit." Amateur astronomers can observe exoplanet transits with their own telescopes by watching for the light from a nearby star to dim.NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) sees these dimming events, too—many thousands of them. But just seeing a star dim once is not enough. You need to catch multiple dimming events (and perform various other... Scitech Daily https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4261078/posts#comment Tue, 27 Aug 2024 12:05:21 GMT