TESS Stories
NASA’s Tally of Planets Outside Our Solar System Reaches 6,000
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The milestone highlights the accelerating rate of discoveries, just over three decades since the first exoplanets were found. The official number of exoplanets — planets outside our solar system — tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added…
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Astronomers Map Stellar ‘Polka Dots’ Using NASA’s TESS, Kepler
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Scientists have devised a new method for mapping the spottiness of distant stars by using observations from NASA missions of orbiting planets crossing their stars’ faces. The model builds on a technique researchers have used for decades to study star…
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NASA Citizen Scientists Find New Eclipsing Binary Stars
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When two stars orbit one another in such a way that one blocks the other’s light each time it swings around, that’s an eclipsing binary. A new paper from NASA’s Eclipsing Binary Patrol citizen science project presents more than 10,000…
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