Temperate Planets (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Temperate Planets

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NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, has discovered three new worlds that are among the smallest, nearest exoplanets known to date. The planets orbit a star just 73 light years away and include a small, rocky super-Earth and two sub-Neptunes -- planets about half the size of our own icy giant.

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NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Wiessinger

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