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Two New Earth-like Exoplanets Discovered
September 27 , 2018
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- NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered two new earth-like exoplanets namely “super-Earth” and “hot Earth”.
- TESS was launched in April 2018 to detect exoplanets (planets outside the sun’s solar system) and this is TESS’s first discovery.
- TESS is on a 2-year mission to expand astronomers' known catalogue of so-called exoplanets, worlds circling distant stars.
- Super-Earth is named as "Pi Mensae c" and is almost 60 light-years away which orbits its sun every 6.3 days.
- Hot-Earth has been named as LHS 3844 b which is almost 49 light-years away. It orbits its sun every 11 hours.
- Both the planets are too hot to support life.
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