NASA’s Exoplanet-Hunting Space Telescope Needs Your Help Finding New Worlds

The space agency is asking citizen scientists to help hunt exoplanets in the vast trove of images gathered by TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.

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By Eric Betz
May 20, 2021 3:00 PMMay 20, 2021 3:44 PM
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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was built to hunt down thousands of exoplanets around nearby stars. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab)

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NASA is recruiting citizen science volunteers to help astronomers discover exoplanets hidden in observations from one of its space telescopes.

A pair of citizen science projects, Planet Hunters TESS and Planet Patrol, are asking users to help sort through images from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and separate out potential exoplanet signals from those of planet impostors. Meanwhile, another project called Exoplanet Watch is tapping amateur astronomers to help follow up on new planet discoveries using backyard telescopes. 

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