The US space agency “NASA” has announced that its satellite, “Tess”, which is chasing the planets, has detected a new planet the size of the Earth, in which water may be available because it is located not far from it and not near its star.
And called the planet “TOI 700D”, which is relatively close to the Earth, as it is located at a distance of a hundred light years, as explained by the “Laboratory Proprietary Laboratory” of NASA.
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“Tess was designed and launched specifically to find planets the size of Earth and in orbit around nearby stars,” said Paul Hertz, director of NASA’s Astrophysics Department.
“Tess” almost did not monitor the planet, but amateur astronomers, including high school student Alton Spencer, discovered a classification error from the beginning, which allowed an understanding of the actual nature of the planet.
The Vision newspaper reported that the Spitzer Space Telescope confirmed the discovery after that, as other telescopes, especially Kepler, had detected other planets like this, but it was the first Tess discovery launched in 2018.
Tess is watching a portion of the sky to observe a possible passage of planets in front of stars, causing a temporary decline in its luster.
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The year 2019 witnessed some unprecedented space discoveries, perhaps the most prominent of which is this world that consists of semi-Neptune planets, and can form around supermassive black holes and revolve around them, where these outer planets live on the edge of a black hole, and are formed by ice dust.
In June 2019, researchers reported that they had found Earth-like exoplanets orbiting a red dwarf known as Teegarden’s Star, which is only 12.5 light-years from Earth.
The newly discovered worlds complete one lap around its host star on 4.9 and 11.4 Earth days, respectively, and despite these nearby orbits, scientists still believe they reside in the “habitable zone”, a group of distances from the star that can support the presence of Liquid water is on the surface of the world, because the Teegarden star is so gloomy.
Scientists also believe from the data collected so far, that there may be more exoplanets to be found in this system as well.
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