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Less than a year after launch, TESS is already finding bizarre worlds

The first few exoplanets nabbed by the telescope are unlike any yet seen

TESS telescope

WHOLE NEW WORLDS  The TESS exoplanet hunting telescope caught eight new planets in its first four months of observing. Three are shown in this artist’s illustration.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (edited by MIT News)

By Lisa Grossman

- More than 2 years ago

SEATTLE — The next generation exoplanet hunter is coming into its own.