NASA moves telescope "TESS" in the northern hemisphere

TESS, a NASA space exploration telescope, discovered 21 kwakpas outside our solar system and collected data on other interesting events occurring in the southern half of the sky during its first year of operation. Activity, but now seems to focus on the northern hemisphere. Complete the most comprehensive hunting expedition to the planet ever undertaken.

According to Phys's scientific site On July 18th, the investigation on the southern part of the site was completed. The satellite has turned its cameras north and when the northern portion is completed by 2020, the TESS will have identified more than three quarters of the sky.

"TESS goes on to the next step, if the planets are everywhere," said Paddy Boyd, a TESS scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "Let's find those twinkling stars around us, because it will be the stars that we can now follow through existing terrestrial and space telescopes." He said.

To find the outer planets, TESS uses four large cameras to observe a segment of the sky at 24 degrees 27 days at a time, with some parts overlapping, so that parts of the sky are monitored for almost a year. From our solar system.

NASA is striving to place astronauts on the closest planet objects, "Moon and Mars", to better understand the planets of our solar system, and to follow observations with powerful telescopes will allow us to better understand understand how the Earth and the solar system were formed.