{"id":281497,"date":"2024-02-07T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=281497"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:12:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T10:42:54","slug":"transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite-tess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/transiting-exoplanet-survey-satellite-tess\/","title":{"rendered":"Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source<\/strong>-This post on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)<\/strong> is based on the article “Astronomers Find Super-Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone of TOI-715<\/strong>” published in “Science news<\/strong>” on 5th February 2024.<\/p>\n

Why in the News?<\/h2>\n

Recently, astronomers utilized data from NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite<\/span> (TESS) to uncover and analyze a potentially habitable zone planet known as TOI-715b<\/span>.<\/p>\n

What is Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)?<\/h2>\n
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Aspect<\/strong><\/td>\nDetails<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
About<\/strong><\/td>\n1. It is a NASA mission dedicated to locating planets<\/span> that orbit the brightest stars visible from Earth.
\n2. It is a successor<\/span> to NASA’s Kepler space telescope<\/a>, which discovered thousands of exoplanets over a decade following its launch in 2009.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Launched on\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\nApril 18, 2018, using a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket<\/span> from Cape Canaveral(USA).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mission life<\/strong><\/td>\nThe main mission concluded on July 4, 2020, and TESS is currently in an extended mission phase<\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Orbit<\/strong><\/td>\n1. TESS follows a distinctive high Earth orbit<\/span>, completing its cycle every 12 to 15 days.<\/span>
\n2. This orbit is strategically inclined to minimize obstructions from Earth and the Moon, allowing the telescope an unimpeded view of the sky.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Significance<\/strong><\/td>\n1. During its two-year primary mission, TESS’s four cameras scanned more than 200,000 nearby and bright stars, covering 75% of the sky.<\/span>
\n2. TESS discovers planets of various sizes and compositions<\/span>, from small rocky ones to giant ones, demonstrating the galaxy’s planet diversity.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

How does TESS detect exoplanets?<\/h2>\n

1. It employs the transit technique<\/span> to identify planets.<\/p>\n

2. It searches for regular dips in the brightness of stars<\/span> as planets pass in front of them from our perspective.<\/p>\n

3. The bigger the planet, the greater the drop in brightness during the transit.<\/p>\n

4. The duration it takes for a planet to transit in front of the star and return helps determine the shape of its orbit.<\/p>\n

5. This method unveils the planet’s diameter<\/span> and the size of its orbit<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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Source-This post on Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is based on the article “Astronomers Find Super-Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone of TOI-715” published in “Science news” on 5th February 2024. Why in the News? Recently, astronomers utilized data from NASA\u2019s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) to uncover and analyze a potentially habitable zone planet known… Continue reading Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-281497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}