NASA's TESS satellite discovers a new planet.
The TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) satellite was launched by the US space agency NASA.
Recently this satellite has discovered a new planet called 'TOI 700 d', this planet is in the shape of Earth. This planet is 101.5 light-years away from the Earth. NASA has predicted life on this planet.TES (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite).
The TESS mission is being led by the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. TESS is designed to search for planets orbiting stars near the Earth.
The presence of such planets will be known when the star's light is reduced due to the passing of the planet in front of a star. TESS is the successor of the space observatory Kepler. Most of the currently known outer planets have been discovered by Kepler.
The major objectives of TESSTESS will survey the brightest stars near the Earth for 2 years, it will take pictures of the entire sky with the help of several cameras. Later it will generate a list of possible extraterrestrials using the transit photometry method.FeaturesThe TESS Observatory weighs just 362 kg. It has four wide-view cameras.
However, no life detection tool has been installed in TESS. Its purpose is only to discover possible extraterrestrial planets on which other telescopes will work later.TESS will use the transit method to locate the outer planets. When a planet will pass through the front of a bright star, the light of the star will decrease slightly during that time. On the repeated occurrence of this phenomenon, it is estimated that the house is orbiting the said star. TESS will scan about 85% of the sky during its two-year mission.
In the first year, it will scan the Southern Hemisphere. It will later operate in the Northern Hemisphere. The importance of TESSThe data collected by TESS will provide information about the mass, size, density, and orbit of smaller planets. It will also be known whether the houses are rocky or gaseous. TESS will scan a larger part of the sky than Kepler, but it cannot scan much farther. Kepler's range was up to 3,000 light-years. While the TESS range is only 300 light-years.
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