35K views · 4.1K reactions | Our planet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered 66 worlds, observed exploding stars, and watched a black hole shred a star like our Sun. And that's just part of the story. Now in its extended NASA Exoplanets mission, TESS is surveying the universe better and faster than ever before. See how: https://go.nasa.gov/33W46Se | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

Launching in 2017, Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS is an astrophysics mission designed to use four cameras to scan the entire sky, searching for planets outside our Solar System, known as exoplanets. The mission will monitor over 500,000 of the brightest stars in the sky, searching for dips in their brightness that would indicate a planet transiting across. TESS is predicted to find over 3,000 exoplanet candidates, ranging from gas giants to small rocky planets. About 500 of these p

From NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS, a panorama of the southern sky. 🌌 The glow of the Milky Way arcs across a sea of stars in this image produced from a year of observations by the spacecraft's four cameras. More: https://go.nasa.gov/2JRlA7u Hi-res images: https://go.nasa.gov/2PPfloE | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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131K views · 6.7K reactions | What happens when a star strays too close to a black hole? Intense tides break it apart into a stream of gas. Observations by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS mission helped produce the most detailed look yet at the beginning of this cataclysmic phenomenon. Visualize how it unfolded: https://go.nasa.gov/2lV9K3M #BlackHoleWeek⚫ | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Facebook

1.8K views · 100 reactions | In just a few hours, NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite - TESS is expected to launch on a mission to search the skies for the nearest terrestrial planets outside our solar system! Watch the launch LIVE at 6:32pm ET. Learn more: https://tess.gsfc.nasa.gov/. Credit: NASA | Canadian Space Agency | Facebook