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TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

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NASA’s TESS discovers exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system. In the course of its extended observations of the sky, TESS also finds and monitors all types of objects that change in brightness, from nearby asteroids to pulsating stars and distant galaxies containing supernovae.

Type

Space telescope

Launch

April 18, 2018

Wavelength

Visible light

Status

Extended mission

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Primary Mission Complete, TESS Extends its Exploration

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) completed its two-year primary mission and continues its search for new worlds. Learn about some of TESS’s most interesting discoveries so far.

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Small Steps, Giant Leaps: Episode 162: 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000

Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler

NASA Citizen Scientists Find New Eclipsing Binary Stars

NASA Research To Be Featured at American Astronomical Society Meeting

Other TESS News

An object disintegrates as it orbits a star.

MIT: Astronomers Discover Planet That’s Rapidly Disintegrating

An orange planet orbits a distant star

MIT: Astronomers Spot Highly “Eccentric” Planet Becoming Hot Jupiter

Columns of planets with different labels

New Catalog Showcases Diverse Exoplanet Landscape with Strange, Exotic Worlds

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