Texas Tech Joins Team in New Planet Discovery Method
Researchers from Texas Tech University and the University of New Mexico have utilized NASA's TESS satellite to identify a distant 'super Jupiter' exoplanet. This discovery marks a successful application of gravitational microlensing using TESS data, which provides a new method for detecting planets outside our solar system.
Why it matters
This advancement in observational astronomy expands the toolkit for discovering exoplanets that are otherwise difficult to detect with traditional transit methods.
Michael Fausnaugh , assistant professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at Texas Tech University , is part of a group of researchers who have identified a planet orbiting a distant star, according to a news release from NASA.
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