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3 giorni fa · Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is a space telescope for NASA's Explorer program, designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the Kepler mission.
23 mag 2024 · Using observations by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) and many other facilities, two international teams of astronomers have discovered a planet between the sizes of Earth and Venus only 40 light-years away.
30 mag 2024 · During its second year of operation TESS observed the northern hemisphere. Combining 208 images taken by TESS, this mosaic of the northern sky was created. Many celestial objects can be seen within this image, but most noticeable is the arc of the Milky Way - our home.
30 mag 2024 · This week, we are looking at three recent papers from the archive. Enjoy! The evolution of stellar X-ray activity and angular momentum as seen by eROSITA, TESS, and Gaia (Stassun & Kounkel 2024) : X-ray activity and stellar rotation are critical calibrators for constraining stellar ages.
3 giorni fa · Un esopianeta simile a Giove, distante 300 anni luce in direzione della costellazione del Delfino e che orbita attorno ad una stella simile al Sole è stato scoperto da due astrofili italiani ...
1 giorno fa · TESS will reach its orbit through a complex flight design featuring up to eleven burns of its orbit maneuvering engine plus a critical lunar flyby – creating around 60 days of maneuvering to place the spacecraft into its operational orbit.
27 mag 2024 · The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new worlds, with TESS planet candidates now outnumbering the total number of confirmed planets from Kepler.
