Wednesday, July 31, 2019

TESS satellite uncovers 'first nearby super-Earth'

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), a mission designed to comb the heavens for exoplanets, has discovered its first potentially habitable world outside of our own solar system -- and an international team of astronomers has characterized the super-Earth, about 31 light-years away.

from Solar System News -- ScienceDaily https://ift.tt/2ZmJVbe
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