NASA has discovered a planet which has about 60 times the mass of Earth in a habitable area in space called Goldilocks. The space agency’s world hunting mission called the Transiting Exoplanet Surv…
NASA has discovered a planet which has about 60 times the mass of Earth in a habitable area in space called Goldilocks.
Steve Kawaler, study co-author and Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy, said: “This is the first bucketful of water from the fire hose of data we're getting from TESS. “Maybe we can also look at the very faint stars — the white dwarfs — that are my first love and represent the future of our Sun and solar system."
"This catalog is important for TESS because anyone working with the data wants to know around which stars we can find the closest Earth-analogs."
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