#TESS is Also Helping #Astronomers Study Bizarre #Pulsating #Stars

Issued by Universe Today

TESS is NASA's newest planet-hunting telescope, scanning the skies for planets orbiting stars in our region of the Milky Way. It's using the transit method, which means watching how stars fade as a planet passes in front of them. Of course, this technique is very useful for many different mysteries in astronomy, including types of objects called Delta Scuti stars. These rotate rapidly and pulsate, and astronomers haven't been able to explain exactly what's going on with them. But thanks to observations from TESS, they're getting closer.







TESS is Also Helping Astronomers Study Bizarre Pulsating Stars