Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite 17th April 2018
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
17th April 2018
On the tv news yesterday I heard quick news story about the TESS satellite and its mission.
The scientist explaining the mission suggested or stated that every star likely had planets orbiting it.
Actually, that’s not the case. There’s a good many that do and a good many that don’t. Planets belonging to a star don’t tend to wander away from that star to other solar systems or to lone stars. A collision is one of the very few causes that would bring that about.
It’s important to remember there are different stars of differing ages with planets of differing ages.
The information that will result from this satellite will be very interesting. Though the mission is to observe exo planets, the closest magnetar to Earth is one NASA has named SGR 1745-2900. I’m hoping their TESS satellite will possibly provide some more details on that too.
By Fiona MacLeod©
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