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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) began searching for planets around nearby stars on July 25, 2018. TESS is expected to transmit its first scientific data to the Earth in August, then periodically 13.5 days per year. track. The TESS science team will begin to study the data for the new planets immediately after the arrival of the first information pack.
"It is exciting that the new" hunting mission "of our planet is ready to start looking for new worlds of our solar system," said Paul Hertz, director of NASA's Astrophysics Division at its headquarters in New York. Washington. "Now that we know that there are more star planets in our universe, I'm waiting for the imaginary and curious worlds we are going to discover."
TESS is NASA's most modern satellite looking for planets outside our solar system. known as the exoplanets. For the next two years, the mission will monitor the nearest and brightest stars for periodic dimming. These events, known as transits phenomena, indicate that a planet can pbad in front of its star. TESS should locate thousands of planets using this method and it is thought that some of them could also support life.
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