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We've moved! For the latest updates on the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), please follow
@NASAExoplanets
&
@NASAUniverse
. You can always keep track of us at .
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ICYMI!
#AAS235
Our
@NASAExoplanets
mission
@NASA_TESS
has found its first planet with two suns ☀️☀️, located 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Pictor. A
@NASAGoddard
intern examined TESS data, first flagged by citizen scientists, to make this discovery:
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The final speaker of the
#AAS235
@NASA_TESS
splinter session is Eliza Kempton. She highlighted how many of the exoplanets being discovered by TESS are prime targets for
@NASAWebb
- JWST can be used to reveal the properties of the atmospheres of exoplanets!
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Roland Vanderspek, Deputy PI of
@NASA_TESS
, is excited for TESS’s first extended mission. While the prime mission will end in July 2020, the extended mission will start shortly after.
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@NASA_TESS
data pair well with data from and tools used for other missions like the NASA Kepler and K2 missions! Christina Hedges talked about the Kepler/K2/TESS connection at our splinter session at
#AAS235
.
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Did you know
@NASA_TESS
also studies objects outside of our galaxy? Krista Smith told us all about how TESS does this at
#AAS235
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When
@NASA_TESS
searches for new exoplanets, it is actually studying stars too! James Davenport discussed the variety of stellar astrophysics we can learn about from
@NASA_TESS
.
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Next up at the
@NASA_TESS
splinter is Andrew Vanderburg, speaking on the incredible exoplanets TESS has discovered in its first year of science.
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ICYMI - If you are at
#AAS235
, join us for more
@NASA_TESS
fun in about two hours from now, at our evening splinter session!
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NASA_TESS Retweeted
@NASA_TESS
Scientists used
@NASAspitzer
to confirm the discoveries and to model the potential environments for TOI 700 d.
The planets' star is a small, cool M dwarf just over 100 light-years💡⤳ away in the constellation Dorado.
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NASA_TESS Retweeted
📣Discovery Alert!📣
Meet three new exoplanets discovered by
@NASA_TESS
. One of the planets, TOI 700 d, is an Earth-sized🌍 world in its star's habitable zone (where liquid water💧 *could* exist on the surface).
👋TOI 700 b, c & d! We see you.
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NASA_TESS Retweeted
Astronomers using data from NASA’s TESS were surprised to find that Alpha Draconis, a star visible to the naked-eye, undergoes mutual eclipses with its fainter companion star. The brief six-hour eclipses were easy for ground-based observatories to miss.
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Surprise! The bright, naked-eye star known as Alpha Draconis that has been studied for centuries was just discovered to be an eclipsing binary star by
@NASA_TESS
. Learn more here:
#AAS235
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NASA_TESS Retweeted
A signal that was originally thought to be from a stellar eclipse in the TOI 1338 system turned out to be from a new world! This planet became TESS’s first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars.
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@NASA_TESS
has discovered its first circumbinary planet! As shown in this artist impression, this planet orbits around two stars with a period ranging from 93 to 95 days. Learn more here:
#AAS235
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NASA_TESS Retweeted
NASA’s TESS discovered its first Earth-size planet in a star’s habitable zone, the range of distances where conditions may be just right to allow the presence of liquid water on the surface.
@NASAspitzer
followed up and confirmed it.
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@NASA_TESS
has discovered a system of three planets that includes an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of the cool host star. Read more here:
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NASA_TESS Retweeted
Otherworldly discoveries alert! Find out the latest
@NASAExoplanets
findings from our planet-hunting TESS mission. Watch live:
#AAS23
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