TESS AAS Hyperwall Presentation January 2018

Venus transits the Sun on June 5, 2012 as observed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory in 171 Angstrom light.

Credit: NASA/SDO

Imagery and spectra of the stars in the Pleiades as captured by K2.

Credit: NASA/K2/Aarhus University/T.White

Proposed TESS Guest Investigator topics.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Proposed TESS Guest Investigator topics.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Proposed TESS Guest Investigator topics. With number of proposals in each category.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Loopable animation of TESS spacecraft.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/CI Lab

Animation of how TESS will survey the sky.

Credit: MIT

Animation of TESS's path into its long-term orbit and what that final orbit will look like.

Credit: MIT

Animation of TESS's two phases while in orbit. During HASO--or high-altitude science operations--the spacecraft is farther from Earth and is capturing science data with its cameras. As it nears its closest approach to Earth, it switches to LAHO--low-altitude housekeeping operations--and rotates to transmit and recieve data from the ground.

Credit: MIT

This illustration compares the sizes of various exoplanets with Earth and the Moon.

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

This animation illustrates the Kepler-186 system, whose fifth world is the first Earth-sized exoplanet to be found orbiting within its star’s habitable zone. The animation closes with a simulated image from a coronagraph showing how such a planet might appear when directly imaged.

Credit: NASA/Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech