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Data flows from NASA’s TESS Mission, leads to discovery of Saturn-sized planet

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Astronomers who study stars have contributed to the analysis of a planet discovered by NASA’s new TESS Mission. It’s the first planet identified by TESS for which the oscillations — ‘starquakes’ — of the planet’s host star could be measured.