TESS Finds a Planet That Takes 482 Days to Orbit, the Widest it's Seen so Far

We’re rapidly learning that our Solar System, so familiar to us all, does not represent normal. A couple of decades ago, we knew very little about other solar systems. Astronomers had discovered only a handful of exoplanets, especially around pulsars. But that all changed in the last few years. Exoplanet-hunting telescopes like Kepler and TESS …