TESS First Light -- Full (IMAGE)
Caption
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) captured this strip of stars and galaxies in the southern sky during one 30-minute period on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Created by combining the view from all four of its cameras, this is TESS' "first light," from the first observing sector that will be used for identifying planets around other stars. Notable features in this swath of the southern sky include the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds and a globular cluster called NGC 104, also known as 47 Tucanae. The brightest stars in the image, Beta Gruis and R Doradus, saturated an entire column of camera detector pixels on the satellite's second and fourth cameras. Download TESS "first light" images in HD resolution: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13069
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NASA/MIT/TESS
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