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NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets

October 2, 2024

Ashley Balzer

Professional and amateur astronomers teamed up with artificial intelligence to find an unmatched stellar trio called TIC 290061484, thanks to cosmic “strobe lights” captured by NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). The system contains a set of twin stars orbiting each other every 1.8 days, and a third star that circles the pair in just…
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Talented Teams Tackle Toasty Planet

August 21, 2024

NASA

Exoplanets, look out! Two NASA-funded teams of amateur astronomers are tracking you with their backyard telescopes. These two teams, called UNITE (UNISTELLAR Network Investigating TESS Exoplanets) and Exoplanet Watch, have combined forces to confirm a new planetary discovery—a toasty “warm Jupiter”. “I pinch myself every day when I recall that I have made a meaningful scientific contribution to astronomy…
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binary stars, Exoplanet Science, exoplanets, Neptune-Like Exoplanets, Tech Industry, Tech News, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle

May 21, 2024

NASA

The Discovery A planet that could resemble a smaller version of our own Neptune orbits one of two Sun-like stars that also orbit each other. The planet dwells in the “habitable zone,” with a potentially moderate temperature, and poses a challenge to prevailing ideas of planet formation. Key Facts Astronomers once imagined that our solar…
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NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Operations

April 11, 2024

NASA

NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) returned to science operations May 3 and is once again making observations. The satellite went into safe mode April 23 following a separate period of down time earlier that month. The operations team determined this latest safe mode was triggered by a failure to properly unload momentum from the…
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How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

April 4, 2024

Ashley Balzer

Guessing your age might be a popular carnival game, but for astronomers it’s a real challenge to determine the ages of stars. Once a star like our Sun has settled into steady nuclear fusion, or the mature phase of its life, it changes little for billions of years. One exception to that rule is the…
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Earth-like Exoplanets, Eclipses, exoplanets, Gas Giant Exoplanets, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), Tech Industry, Tech News, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), The Universe

That Starry Night Sky? It’s Full of Eclipses

April 2, 2024

NASA

Our star, the Sun, on occasion joins forces with the Moon to offer us Earthlings a spectacular solar eclipse – like the one that will be visible to parts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada on April 8. But out there, among the other stars, how often can we see similar eclipses? The answer…
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Exoplanet Discoveries, exoplanets, Gas Giant Exoplanets, Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Tech Industry, Tech News, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

Discovery Alert: a Long Year for a ‘Cold Saturn’

March 7, 2024

NASA

Two recently discovered exoplanets, gas giants possibly similar to Saturn, could be candidates for further atmospheric investigation.
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Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone

January 31, 2024

NASA

A newly discovered ‘super-Earth’ dwells in the habitable zone of its parent star – and might have a roughly Earth-sized companion.
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Exoplanet Discoveries, exoplanets, Tech Industry, Tech News, Terrestrial Planets, TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’

January 10, 2024

NASA

In a system with two known planets, astronomers spotted something new: a small object transiting across the Sun-sized star. This turned out to be another planet: extra hot and Earth-sized.
Read more: Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’
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Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System

November 29, 2023

NASA

Six “sub-Neptune” exoplanets orbit their star in a kind of rhythmic dance – one easily set to music.
Read more: Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
				1	2	3
4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17
18	19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

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Category: TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite)

NASA’s TESS Spots Record-Breaking Stellar Triplets

Talented Teams Tackle Toasty Planet

Discovery Alert: Mini-Neptune in Double Star System is a Planetary Puzzle

NASA’s TESS Returns to Science Operations

How NASA’s Roman Telescope Will Measure Ages of Stars

That Starry Night Sky? It’s Full of Eclipses

Discovery Alert: a Long Year for a ‘Cold Saturn’

Discovery Alert: A ‘Super-Earth’ in the Habitable Zone

Discovery Alert: Earth-sized Planet Has a ‘Lava Hemisphere’

Discovery Alert: Watch the Synchronized Dance of a 6-Planet System

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