TESS

Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

active Mission

NASA’s TESS discovers exoplanets, worlds beyond our solar system. In the course of its extended observations of the sky, TESS also finds and monitors all types of objects that change in brightness, from nearby asteroids to pulsating stars and distant galaxies containing supernovae.

Type

Space telescope

Launch

April 18, 2018

Wavelength

Visible light

Status

Extended mission
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