GJ 357d: First Nearby Habitual Super-Earth

  • A team of Astronomers at Cornell University has uncovered the first potentially habitable planet outside our solar system using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
  • The Exoplanet is named as GJ 357d. It is massive as compared to earth and located about 31-light years away from our solar system.
  • GJ 357d is in series with other planets like GJ 357b, GJ 357c found revolving star (GJ 357).
  • GJ 357: It is an M-type dwarf star which is about 1/3rd in mass/size as Sun and about 40% cooler than it. The series of planet (GJ 357b, GJ 357c and GJ 357d) revolves around it.
  • M-type ....
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