Floating in a stream of young stars, astronomers have discovered a trinity of similar neighboring planets like Earth orbiting a very new version of our own sun. The team discovered a young, warmer world using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite.TESS), According to a new study in The Astronomical …
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This illustration shows how the planet KELT-9 b sees its host star. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Chris Smith (USRA) Astronomers have modeled one of the hottest and strangest planets known using measurements from NASA’s planet-hunting Exoplanet Reconnaissance (TESS) mission. The previously discovered planet, known as KELT-9 by HD …
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Measurements from NASA’s Transit Exoplanet Study Satellite (TESS) have enabled astronomers to greatly improve their understanding of the strange environment of KELT-9b, one of the hottest known planets. “The rarity factor is high with KELT-9b,” said John Ahlers, an astronomer at the Universities Space Research Association in Columbia, Maryland, and …
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