The
first photo from NASA's planet-hunting TESS satellite is
full of so
many stars
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A new NASA telescope, sailing toward its assigned orbit, took a moment to look around before it starts its ultimate mission: searching the galaxy for alien planets.*
NASA's
TESS spacecraft — short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey
satellite — beamed home one of its
first photos taken
from space, and it's a doozy.*
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The photo, which effectively amounts to a test of one of the satellite's four cameras, contains more than 200,000 stars, NASA said.*
But that's only a fraction of the number of
stars it will eventually study in order to find alien worlds out there circling them.*
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