TESS Discovers a World Disintegrating into a Comet-like Dust Tail
TESS at MIT
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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is searching the whole sky for transiting exoplanets that orbit the closest stars in the Galaxy.
- It's that time!! @TessSciCon3 is happening at MIT 7/29 - 8/2. Catch up on the TESS mission, new science, and data analysis techniques from the community. Abstract submission deadline is April 12 (very soon!) tsc.mit.edu
- It's that time!! @TessSciCon3 is happening at MIT 7/29 - 8/2. Catch up on the TESS mission, new science, and data analysis techniques from the community. Abstract submission deadline is April 12 (very soon!) tsc.mit.edu
- TESS celebrated its fifth "launchiversary" this week. Five years of exoplanets, variable stars, supernovae, and more!Happy 5th launch anniversary, TESS! Check out this thread to see five of our favorite TESS discoveries so far! 🧵
- 🎉 Happy five-year "launchiversary," TESS! 🎉 Let's celebrate all the discoveries since 2018 and hope for many more!#OTD in 2018, @NASA launched the TESS Space Telescope. In its first five years, TESS has discovered 329 planets and 4,300+ planet candidates. go.nasa.gov/3opfR05 Here are some exoplanet highlights!🧵⬇️
