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NASA’s Exoplanet Hunter Reveals its Most Complete Look at the Night Sky

NASA’s Exoplanet Hunter Reveals its Most Complete Look at the Night Sky

A wide, oval-shaped map of the night sky filled with tiny stars. A dense, bright arc of stars curves from the top left to the bottom right. A dark rectangular patch appears near the top left within the star field.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has released a new mosaic that offers its most complete view of the night sky yet. Captured over eight years, the all-sky mosaic includes 679 confirmed, newly discovered exoplanets and nearly 5,200 candidate exoplanets.

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