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George Ricker built his first telescope when he was in third grade. Growing up in rural Florida, with its abundance of dark night skies, facilitated his natural propensity for stargazing. But it was
George R. Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, is the principal investigator for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS) Explorer mission, which has discovered thousands of new planets since its launch in 2018.
Gamma rays are high-energy photons produced by some of the most violent events in the universe. We explore this powerful radiation in more detail here.