Discovery Alert: Two New, Rocky Planets in the Solar Neighborhood - NASA Exoplanet Exploration and Discovery
6/15/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by By Pat Brennan, NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
by By Pat Brennan, NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program
Two newly discovered "super-Earths" are rocky worlds – and could be ideal candidates for follow-up atmospheric observations.
The discovery: NASA’s TESS mission has found two rocky worlds orbiting the relatively bright, red dwarf star HD 260655, only 33 light-years away. The new planets, HD 260655 b and HD 260655 c, are amo… [+3445 chars]
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