The TESS space telescope has spotted its first exoplanet
Pi Men c’s size and mass suggest it may have lots of water
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BRAVE NEW WORLDS The TESS exoplanet telescope’s first science image includes this snapshot of the southern sky, plus three more taken with TESS’s other three cameras. The Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, is on the image’s right. The star R Doradus is so bright it left a spike of light streaking across the image.
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