TOI 270: New Planetary System
Three new planets, which orbit a star situated 73 light years away from the Earth, have been discovered using NASA’s newest planet-hunting satellite.
Key Features
- Of the three new exoplanets, one is rocky and slightly larger than Earth, while the two others are gaseous and roughly twice the size of our planet.
- The new star system, called TESS Object of Interest, or TOI-270, is exactly what the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, was designed to find.
- Not only is the smaller planet in the habitable zone -- the range of distances from a star that are warm enough to allow liquid-water ....
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