Thousands of Exoplanets Spotted by an American Satellite

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Long-outdated data led to an unexpected discovery. In reviewing the archives of the American satellite TESS, which had accumulated data on stars for several years, a team of researchers identified 11,554 exoplanets, of which 10,052 were previously unnoticed, reports a study filed on arXiv and relayed by Science & Life. To achieve this result, scientists used an algorithm dedicated to light stars, up to magnitude 16, a threshold that goes beyond …