A WEIRD WORLD AROUND A WARPED STAR
Nov 05, 2020
2 minutes
Europe’s new telescope studying alien planets has created its first detailed portrait of a world, and it’s a weird one: hot and tilted around a warped star.
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite, nicknamed CHEOPS, in December 2019; the spacecraft began science observations in April. CHEOPS isn’t designed to discover alien planets, but rather to inform scientists so that they can construct portraits
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