A circular view of the sky captured by NASA’s TESS mission unfolds like a paper fan around a central point in this animated GIF. Each segment looks like a film strip studded with stars. Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (USRA)

TESS’s Southern Sky Panorama

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spent a year imaging the southern sky full of all kinds of stars during its search for worlds beyond our solar system.

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