Newslink: NASA's TESS Exoplanet Mission Finds 1st Earth-Size Alien World

in newslink •  6 years ago 

NASA's newest planet hunter has discovered its first Earth-size alien world.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) spotted the planet, as well as a weird "sub-Neptune" world, circling the star HD 21749, which lies about 53 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.

https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-first-earth-size-exoplanet-discovery.html

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