NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a “Super Earth”. The new planet is orbits a red dwarf star around 100 light-years away and may be larger than Earth but still potentially rocky. The discovery of a “super-Earth” was made public by an international team headed by the University of Montreal.
The exoplanet TOI-1452b is a little bigger than Earth and is located in a habitable zone, often known as the “Goldilocks Zone”. This zone is blessed with conditions that are just perfect for water to stay liquid. Since “TOI-1452 b” is nearly five times as massive and 70% larger than Earth, its densities might be compatible with having an extremely deep ocean.
Charles Cadieux, the study’s lead author and a PhD candidate at the Université de Montréal, declared in a statement that TOI-1452 b is one of the greatest possibilities for an ocean planet that has been discovered to date.
The newly-discovered planet is only 100 light years away, this is considered quite close. Due to its star’s relative brightness, James Webb Space Telescope should be able to record the spectrum of sunlight passing through its atmosphere, serving as a form of fingerprint of the atmospheric constituents, according to Mashable.
