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NASA’s TESS exoplanet mission reveals dusty mystery, puzzling astronomers

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The universe is full of mysteries. In observations gathered by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers stumbled on yet another mystery, and a dusty one at that. In new research, a team of scientists examines potential causes of strange signals emitted by an object dubbed TIC 400799224. Based on what astronomers have seen so … Read more

Astronomers Have Detected a Mysterious, Dusty Object Erratically Dimming Its Star

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There are a lot of unexplained objects out there in the Universe, and astronomers have just found another one – a strange, dusty object that may be causing its host star to dim by up to 75 percent.   Often, when we see something block out the light of its star it’s an exoplanet or … Read more