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The TESS mission is following the tradition started by Kepler and finding us planets in places and orbits we never expected. In today’s episode we look at how TESS’s discovery of a Gas Giant in a highly elliptical orbit led to new models looking to imagine how a habitable world might exist in such a system, and what it would see. Beyond dreaming of other worlds skies, we will also talk Monday’s Mercury transit and other celestial events visible this month.
By Dr. Pamela Gay, Erik Madaus, Ally Pelphrey4.3
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The TESS mission is following the tradition started by Kepler and finding us planets in places and orbits we never expected. In today’s episode we look at how TESS’s discovery of a Gas Giant in a highly elliptical orbit led to new models looking to imagine how a habitable world might exist in such a system, and what it would see. Beyond dreaming of other worlds skies, we will also talk Monday’s Mercury transit and other celestial events visible this month.

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