TESS has four telescopes with matrices a resolution of 16.8 megapixels, each of which has a field of view of 24 by 24 degrees.
Satellite Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) photographed a bright star R Doradus is one of its cameras on Tuesday, August 7th.
This star is so bright that creates a number of overexposed pixels in the picture, according to the official website of NASA.
TESS has four telescopes with matrices a resolution of 16.8 megapixels, each of which has a field of view of 24 by 24 degrees.
“In the sea of stars, filled with new worlds, TESS throws a wide net and will collect promising planet for further study. This first research the shows features cameras TESS,” said Paul Hertz, Director of astrophysics at the headquarters of NASA in Washington.
Space telescope TESS are named by replacing the Kepler telescope, which is almost completely worn out. TESS was launched into space in April 2018 and is designed to search for exoplanets by the transit method, photometry, it monitors the brightness variations of the star during the passage of the planet on its disk.
Camera BAGS, designed and manufactured by the Lincoln laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of technology Lexington, Massachusetts and the MIT Kavli Institute, control large swaths of the sky to look for so-called transits, that there are traces of the passage of the planet on background stars. Such passage causes the regular drop in brightness of a star.
TESS will spend two years monitoring of the 26 sectors of the sky for 27 days each. During the first year of operation, the satellite will study the 13 sectors that make up the southern sky. Then TESS will turn to the 13 sectors in the Northern sky, to hold the second annual study.
