starquake

A NASA space observatory called TESS has, for the first time, detected a planet orbiting a star with visible starquakes. That’s a big deal, both because it shows the capabilities of the newly active TESS planet-hunting satellite and because it allowed astronomers to precisely characterize a newfound “hot Saturn.” That exoplanet revealed itself to cameras on TESS (short for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite). “This is the first bucketful of water from the fire hose of data we’re getting from TESS,” Steve Kawaler, a professor of astronomy at Iowa State University and co-author of a paper on the new research, said … Read more