US space agency NASA has announced the discovery of a ‘super-Earth,’ a planet that might support life and is located 137 light-years away.
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US space agency NASA has announced the discovery of a ‘super-Earth,’ a planet that might support life and is located 137 light-years away. Dubbed 'TOI-715 b', it is said to be about one and a half times as wide as Earth. The same system also might harbour a second, Earth-sized planet.
The planet orbits within the ‘conservative’ habitable zone around its parent star, which might give it the right temperature for liquid water to form on its surface.
The new planet was found with the help of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
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