TESS Science Office at MIT hits milestone of 5,000 exoplanet candidates
The catalog of planet candidates found with NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), just passed 5,000 TOIs, or TESS Objects…
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TOI Catalog Now Includes the Detection Pipeline for Each Candidate
The TESS Objects of Interest catalog now has a new column, “Detection.” This column lists the data analysis pipeline which…
9.1 million light curves released from QLP for TESS Extended Mission Year 1
The Quick Look Pipeline (QLP) team at MIT has released over 9.1 million light curves in the third High-Level Science…
40 TOIs from TESS Sector 40
Kicking off the fourth year of TESS science operations, the TESS Science Office released forty new TESS Objects of Interest…
Over 2,200 TOIs in Prime Mission Catalog
View full article here By Pat Brennan (NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program) The news is out of this world: NASA’s TESS…
TESS Stands Against Racism
To everyone in the TESS collaboration, throughout the world: The past few days, weeks, and months have not been easy…
The music of the spheres
MIT hosts “Songs from Extrasolar Spaces,” a musical melding of art and science inspired by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…
NASA’s TESS Helps Find Intriguing New World
Originally published on July 31, 2019 A piping hot planet discovered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has pointed...
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NASA Extends the TESS Mission through 2022
The following is an excerpt from the NASA article written on July 17, 2019: NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) periodically...
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NASA’s TESS Discovers its First Earth-size Planet
Originally published on April 15, 2019 NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size world. The planet,…
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