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Another Day, Another Exoplanet: NASA's TESS Keeps Counting More


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First visible light image from TESS

The first visible light image from TESS, showing the combined view from all four of the instruments cameras on Aug. 7, 2018. A newly confirmed planet, HD 21749b, is in the lower left quadrant of the third section in this image.

Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS

NASA's new planet-hunting machine, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, is racking up scores of alien worlds.

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