NASA’s TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in ‘Habitable Zone’0
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- January 9, 2020
TOI 700 d is a landmark discovery for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
TOI 700 d is a landmark discovery for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.
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Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope and other facilities, astronomers have discovered a compact system of three small planets orbiting around the cool M-dwarf star TOI-700. One of these planets, named TOI-700d, has a radius of 1.1 times that of the Earth and orbits within the conservative habitable zone of its host star.
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