NASA’s new planet-hunting spacecraft has officially begun its search for distant worlds
After a little over three months in space, NASA’s newest planet-hunting spacecraft has begun scouring the galaxy for other worlds. The space observatory, dubbed TESS, officially started science operations on July 25th, which means the vehicle has been taking images of nearby stars with its four cameras to see if any planets might be lurking around them. TESS will transmit its first observations down to Earth sometime in August. It will then continue to send new information periodically for at least the next two years.
On April 18th, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched TESS into a super elliptical orbit around Earth, which is its permanent route to look for planets outside our Solar System, or exoplanets. TESS is specifically looking for...
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