First science image from NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter captures swathe of the southern sky

Following a successful journey to lunar resonant orbit (with a couple of holiday snaps along the way), NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is now getting down to business. The agency today shared the first science image captured by the space telescope, providing researchers with plenty of inspiration in their search for other worlds that might resemble our own.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

First science image from NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter captures swathe of the southern sky

Following a successful journey to lunar resonant orbit (with a couple of holiday snaps along the way), NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is now getting down to business. The agency today shared the first science image captured by the space telescope, providing researchers with plenty of inspiration in their search for other worlds that might resemble our own.

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I’m eagerly awaiting the first release of calibrated light curve data from TESS. To appear in the MAST archive. https://archive.stsci.edu/tess/

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

First science image from NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter captures swathe of the southern sky

Following a successful journey to lunar resonant orbit (with a couple of holiday snaps along the way), NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is now getting down to business. The agency today shared the first science image captured by the space telescope, providing researchers with plenty of inspiration in their search for other worlds that might resemble our own.

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I’m eagerly awaiting the first release of calibrated light curve data from TESS. To appear in the MAST archive. https://archive.stsci.edu/tess/

Nice that they’ve started with the large and small Magellanic Clouds