NASA’s TESS Mission Finds Small Planet Written 2 July 2019
2 July 2019
SPACE reports that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) “has discovered a tiny planet,” L 98-59b, which is “the smallest one it has found to date.” A NASA statement said that the planet is roughly 10 percent smaller than the previously smallest planet found by TESS. (Image Credit: NASA)
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SPACE reports that NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) “has discovered a tiny planet,” L 98-59b, which is “the smallest one it has found to date.” A NASA statement said that the planet is roughly 10 percent smaller than the previously smallest planet found by TESS. (Image Credit: NASA)
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