NASA’s TESS spacecraft finds its littlest exoplanet to date
NASA's TESS spacecraft is proceeding to discover ever-littler planets - and that presently incorporates planets littler than the human homeworld. The vessel has discovered a planet in the L 98-59 system, L 98-59b, that is 80 percent the size of Earth - and 10 percent littler than TESS' past most tiniest finding.
People won't planning a vacation at any point in the near future, lamentably. The system is 34.6 light-years away, and the majority of the planets found up until now (there are bigger 59c and 59d planets) sit in the "Venus zone" where a runaway greenhouse gas effect could render them uninhabitable.
TESS detected the planets by utilizing transits (regular dips in the star's splendor brought about by passing planets). People may get more data soon, in any event. TESS finishes i...