NASA’s TESS (which stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is built to spot undetected planets orbiting distant stars. I mean, it’s right there in the name, so you can imagine it’s a rather specialized piece of equipment. That being said, the spacecraft is apparently also adept at spotting stars in the midst of blowing their tops.
In a new paper published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers explain how TESS helped them investigate a longstanding mystery regarding a very specific type of supernova.
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NASA’s TESS exoplanet hunter is apparently also good at spotting supernovas originally appeared on BGR.com on Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 23:07:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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