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    NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Catches a Comet before starting Science

    August 7, 2018, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    This sequence is compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroids and reflected light from Mars. TESS is expected to find thousands of planets around other nearby stars. Download animated GIF: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/tess_comet_1041_0.gif Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

    A sequence was compiled from a series of images taken on July 25 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. The angular extent of the widest field of view is six degrees. Visible in the images are the comet C/2018 N1, asteroids, variable stars, asteroids and reflected light from Mars. TESS is expected to find thousands of planets around other nearby stars. Download animated GIF: 
    Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology/NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

    Before NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet hunter sent back a stunning sequence of serendipitous images showing the motion of a comet...

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