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Mike Wehner
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- NASA's TESS satellite has completed its survey of the northern sky, and the images it snapped are truly incredible.
- TESS is an exoplanet hunter, designed to detect planets orbiting distant stars.
- The spacecraft has already detected nearly 100 confirmed planets and over 1,000 exoplanet candidates.
We know, logically, that the universe we live in is huge and it's filled with all kinds of stuff and we're just a tiny immeasurable fraction of what is out there. We know this, but as we go about our day-to-day lives we tend to act as though the entire world or perhaps even the entire universe revolves around us and us alone. Here are some photos that will make you feel differently.
The image you see above is a tiny slice of a much larger collection of images captured by NASA's TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. It's built to detect stars and monitor their brightness, and as such it's really really good at creating highly-detailed images of the cosmos. Just look at that image and tell me you don't feel small.
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NASA’s latest TESS image will make you feel so, so small originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 6 Oct 2020 at 23:18:51 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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