TESS

This Blasted Star Is Getting the Hell Out of the Milky Way 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 9, 2021
An ancient explosion sent a white dwarf star speeding through the galaxy.

By David Aragorn
TESS Discovers Two Small and Warm Exoplanets 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 16, 2020
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered two exoplanets transiting inactive red dwarf stars TOI-122 and TOI-237.

By David Aragorn
New research explores how super flares affect planets’ habitability 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- October 15, 2020
Largest ever sample of super flares

By David Aragorn
Rare Hot Neptune Found Orbiting Nearby Dwarf Star 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- September 2, 2020
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and two ground-based instruments, astronomers have discovered and confirmed a transiting hot Neptune exoplanet orbiting TOI-824, a K4-type dwarf star located 210 light-years away in the constellation of Circinus.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Planet Hunter Completes Its Primary Mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 13, 2020
On July 4, NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) finished its primary mission, imaging about 75% of the starry sky as part of a two-year-long survey.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s TESS exoplanet-hunting space telescope wraps up primary mission 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- August 12, 2020
66 confirmed exoplanets, 2,100 candidates and the search goes on.

By David Aragorn
Scientists find ‘lost’ planet in breakthrough that could help us discover alien life 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- July 23, 2020
World was spotted by Nasa telescopes – but then disappeared, until now

By David Aragorn
TESS Discovers Unusual Ancient System with Two Hot Gas Giants 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 15, 2020
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a planetary system of two giant planets — a Neptune-sized planet and a hot Jupiter — orbiting the 8.2-billion-year-old star TOI-1130.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in ‘Habitable Zone’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 9, 2020
TOI 700 d is a landmark discovery for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting mission catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- December 4, 2019
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers at the University of Maryland (UMD), in College Park, Maryland, have captured a clear start-to-finish image sequence of an explosive emission of dust, ice and gases during the close approach of comet 46P/Wirtanen in late 2018. This is the most complete and detailed observation to date of the formation and dissipation of a naturally-occurring comet outburst. The team members reported their results in the November 22 issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

By David Aragorn