TESS First Light: Large Magellanic Cloud and R Doradus (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

TESS First Light: Large Magellanic Cloud and R Doradus

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The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) took this snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud (right) and the bright star R Doradus (left) with just a single detector of one of its cameras on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. The frame is part of a swath of the southern sky TESS captured in its "first light" science image as part of its initial round of data collection. Download TESS "first light" images in HD resolution: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13069

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