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Description	English: The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) took this snapshot of the Large Magellanic Cloud (right) and the bright star R Doradus (left) with just a single detector of one of its cameras on Tuesday, Aug. 7. The frame is part of a swath of the southern sky TESS captured in its “first light” science image as part of its initial round of data collection.
Date	Taken on 7 August 2018
Source	https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13069 (image link)
Author	NASA/MIT/TESS

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