Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite Tess The Hindu

Nasa s transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess has discovered 74 exoplanets or worlds beyond our solar system.
Transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess the hindu. Tour this panorama to see what tess has found so far. The surface of the new planet is hotter than 100 degrees celsius. On wednesday april 18 nasa is expected to launch tess transiting exoplanet survey satellite which will monitor more than 200 000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary. Nasa s goddard space flight center tess has discovered 74 exoplanets or worlds beyond our solar system.
It was led by the. Hd 21749b appears to have the longest orbital period of the three planets so far identified by tess. It was launched on april 18 2018 atop a falcon 9 rocket and was placed into a highly elliptical 13 7 day orbit around the earth. Astronomers are sifting.
The planet was discovered using nasa s transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess the first earth sized planet that has been discovered since the satellite was launched in april 2018. Spacex halted the countdown a little more than two hours before its falcon 9 rocket had been scheduled to carry the transit exoplanet survey satellite or tess into orbit from the cape canaveral. The transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess is a space telescope for nasa s explorers program designed to search for exoplanets using the transit method in an area 400 times larger than that covered by the kepler mission. Nasa s transiting exoplanet survey satellite tess spent nearly a year imaging the northern sky in its search for worlds beyond our solar system.
Astronomers are sifting through some 1 200 additional exoplanet candidates. Nasa plans to send the transiting exoplanet survey satellite or tess into orbit from the cape canaveral air force station in florida aboard a spacex falcon 9 rocket set for blast off on april 16.