NASA's TESS completes its primary mission, discovers 66 new exoplanets

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), on July 4, finished its primary mission. As a result, it found 66 new exoplanets and nearly 2100 candidates which astromers are working to confirm, US ncy said. TESS, which was on a two-year planet-hunting mission, scanned 75 per cent of starry sky during its mission. Patricia Boyd, project scientist for TESS at NASA's Goddard Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland wrote on website, "TESS is producing a torrent of high-quality observations providing valuable data across a wide range of science topics."

On extended mission

As per NASA, TESS is responsible for monitoring 24 by 96-degree strips of sky called ‘sectors’ for about a month using it’s four cameras. As per it’s earlier schedule, TESS scanned 13 sectors which comprised of Sourn sky in 2019 and spent ar year imagining rrn sky. “w in its extended mission, TESS has turned around to resume surveying south”, NASA on its website revealed. planet’s Hunter’s mission is scheduled to end in September 2022.

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