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Scientists discovered a planet 40,000 light-years away hiding in NASA data using an Einstein prediction made more than a century ago

NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) has confirmed a distant exoplanet that was hidden in its data by using a ...
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NASA just found a planet 'hiding' in TESS spacecraft data, all thanks to Einstein

NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS has a new method for detecting worlds beyond the solar system, and it is thanks to ...
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NASA’s exoplanet mission accidentally discovers a world it was never meant to find

The exoplanet telescope TESS revealed a distant world using an entirely different detection method than the one it was built ...

TESS just found a planet in a new way—and more may be hiding in its eight years of data

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...
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Telescope Uses Ripples in Space-Time to Detect a Huge Planet for the First Time

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

NASA's TESS telescope has detected an exoplanet using microlensing for the first time

The TESS telescope, owned by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), was able to detect an exoplanet for ...
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NASA's TESS Just Managed Something No One Thought It Could: Spotting A Planet Warping Spacetime

TESS uses the transit method. When a planet passes in front of its stars, it dims the starlight by a small fraction. If this dimming repeats at regular intervals, you have a likel ...
Scientific American

See the glittering heart of the Milky Way in this stunning new image

This brilliant new image, taken by Europe’s Euclid space telescope, offers a preview of the kind of imaging that will be ...

This Is the Most Detailed Image Yet of the Milky Way’s Center

The Euclid space telescope's stunning photo of our galaxy's “crowded heart” captures more than 60 million stars.