That’s enough slices!

 That’s enough slices! :

This jumbo sky pie was brought to you by TESS—our Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite operated by @MIT—in an effort to discover distant exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system.

TESS completed its primary mission in 2020 by imaging 75% of our night sky over two years. In that time, it found 66 new exoplanets and nearly 2,100 exoplanet candidates.

Video Description:

Starting at 5 o'clock and proceeding counterclockwise, segments of the southern night sky fan out to create a circular mosaic, revealing a deep, dark blue sprinkled with numerous tiny, white stars. The image is dappled with white flecks of larger celestial bodies, and the Milky Way galaxy appears as a glowing line down the center of the image, curving slightly to the left between the 12 to 6 o'clock positions. Pitch black lines denote seams between the slices of sky.

Credit: NASA/MIT/TESS and Ethan Kruse (University of Maryland College Park)

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[ INFORMATION DATA: 15 March 2024 ]