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NASA’s TESS Mission finds planetary system in a new way – UNM Newsroom

For the first time, NASA’s TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting planets TESS regularly reveals, the newfound microlensing world is a super-Jupiter orbiting far from its host star.“When TESS launched, no one expected it to ever be...