What Did NASA Discover With TESS' First Complete Mission

It's already been five years since NASA's TESS mission was launched. Now it completed its first full mission observing the sky and hunting for exoplanets. In this interview, I'm talking with Nicole Colon from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center about the results from TESS and what can come next for the mission.

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00:00 Intro
01:12 How's TESS doing
06:52 Results from TESS
10:30 TESS VS Kepler
20:16 Most exciting planets
30:42 TESS and Earth-like worlds
39:53 Super TESS
48:46 What's next

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[unclvinny]

What a delightful person! For sure the happiest scientist I’ve ever heard talk, I hope lots of kids are inspired by her energy and joy in what she does.

[revenevan]

This is a wonderful interview!
The questions are so clearly well thought out and thought provoking for your guest! I think that makes this channel such a unique spot compared to the bare bones absolute dumbed-down basics of various mainstream media articles about space missions. Please keep it up, Fraser! I'll support the patreon when I can, especially because you don't shy away from viewer questions that I tend to just roll my eyes at 😁👍

[Vorador]

It's really amazing Fraser the amount of content and quality guests you and the team can have on the channel now. I'm looking forward to learning even more!

[stay_at_home_astronaut]

9:50 I am one of those backyard astronomers! I use a department-store Newtonian and my 16 year old Nikon to collect my data. 3 light curves submitted to AAVSO so far!

[anthonyhall]

I absolutely love your new form interviews, great job asking questions and getting interesting people to talk to! 👍 👍 👍

[TheExplodingGerbil]

Thanku for this content- as always, brilliant! ❤

[joelbergeron]

I helped confirm the first exo planet in a binary star system....I only had to go through 45, 000 light curves by hand. Thanks ADHD!

Zooniverse and planet hunters Tess is amazing. Citizen science!

[FatHeadDave]

Fraser my man! I know I should be paying attention, but your videos are perfect to fall asleep too! Thats a compliment I promise

[trackandtravelwithrick]

Knicole is awesome, love the passion in her work. Fraser you really ask good questions. Thanks for the video.

[JenniferA]

Thankyou Fraser and team, your channel deserves 1M subs 👍👍👍

[DominikJaniec]

very interesting interview, tank you :)

[cavetroll]

Thanks Fraser fantastic interview today :).

[deant]

Great interview she is such a happy person

[hipser]

One of the best interviews. but I'm trademarking SuperTESS .

[andrekovacs]

Hello Fraser, another great interview! Could you please consider interviewing someone from the PLATO mission? Cheers

[deant]

Knicole Colon ❤go girl thanks for sharing

[MartinBelcher]

Super TESS could be a constellation of original TESS clones, enough to cover all the sky all the time

[kx]

There needs to be an interesting planet show!

[astroartie]

Thank you very much for that TESS update and interview!
But I was saddened by the lack of any mention of asteroseismology!
TESS is also an asteroseismology workhorse, and we need seismology in order to characterize the host stars of planets - not the least because the observed radius of a transiting planet is in units of host star radii. It is also the best way of determining the age of a system.
Asteroseismology really is the coolest astronomy that almost nobody knows about!

[revenevan]

Exoplanet topics always remind me so much of the song "Keppler 22B" by "King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard"