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RT @NASAUniverse: For the past six years, our TESS mission has been staring at the sky for long periods, hunting for possible planets outsi….

@NASA @NASAWebb Exoplanet 8 Ursae Minoris is somehow orbiting a star that should have destroyed it. TESS studied a star in the latter stages of becoming a red giant – and discovered a planet in a stable orbit!

@NASA @NASAWebb A super-Earth in the habitable zone! TOI-715 b orbits a small, reddish star that is, by astronomical standards, fairly close – only 137 light-years away. The same system also might harbor a second, Earth-sized planet!

@NASA @NASAWebb In 2020, TESS discovered its first Earth-size world in the habitable zone of its star – the distance from a star at which liquid water *could* exist on a planet’s surface. Another Earth-sized exoplanet later joined the lineup.

@NASA In addition to finding exoplanets on its own, TESS serves as a pathfinder for @NASAWebb. TESS discovered the rocky world LHS 3844 b, and Webb took a closer look to tell us more about it. Our telescopes, much like our scientists, work together.

@NASA TESS’ first discovery was a world called Pi Mensae c. It orbits the star Pi Mensae, ~60 light-years away and visible to the unaided eye in the Southern Hemisphere. This discovery kicked off NASA's new era of planet hunting.

#OTD in 2018, @NASA launched the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite to search for new worlds. So far, it’s discovered 432 planets and 7,138 planet candidates! Here are some of the wondrous worlds.🧵⬇️

April is #CitSciMonth and there are lots of ways to join in. Of course, we're partial to the programs where you can discover worlds, but you do you and @DoNASAScience!

RT @DoNASAScience: Jump in and learn with the science teams of three NASA projects during the 12-Hour #OneMillionActsOfScience online Paloo….

Of 5,609 confirmed exoplanets, just 200 are thought to be terrestrial – rocky worlds like Earth and Mars. Fewer still are in their stars' habitable zones. That doesn't mean they're inhabited, of course, but we're looking!

RT @NASAExoplanets: In a cosmic ballroom 1,900 light-years away, six stars are dancing in pairs across space. All three pairs are entwined,….

RT @NASAExoplanets: Pretty in purple 💜 .Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud circles the Milky Way in a long a….

RT @NASASolarSystem: It's an honor just to be nominated (but. vote for us 😉). NASA is up for 13 #Webbys, including social media and broadc….

RT @NASAExoplanets: A super-Earth in the habitable zone .1,400 light-years away, Earth has a bigger, older cousin. Kepler-452 b orbits a Su….

In a cosmic ballroom 1,900 light-years away, six stars are dancing in pairs across space. All three pairs are entwined, and all six stars go through eclipses to our view.

A super-Earth in the habitable zone .1,400 light-years away, Earth has a bigger, older cousin. Kepler-452 b orbits a Sun-like star in 385 days and has a temperature similar to Earth's.

Pretty in purple 💜 .Nearly 200,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud circles the Milky Way in a long and slow dance around our galaxy. Vast clouds of gas slowly collapse to form new stars.