NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in 'Habitable Zone'

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NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in 'Habitable Zone'

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From Space.com:
"For the first time, the agency's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a roughly Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of its host star, the zone of orbital distances where liquid water could be stable on a world's surface, researchers announced today (Jan. 6)."

https://www.space.com/nasa-tess-first-e ... -700d.html

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Re: NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in 'Habitable Zone'

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Here's another article from SpaceFlightNow.com:
"New discoveries from NASA’s TESS mission include potentially habitable exoplanet"

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/01/10/n ... exoplanet/

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Re: NASA's TESS Planet Hunter Finds Its 1st Earth-Size World in 'Habitable Zone'

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It turns out that the person who made the discovery in the TESS data was a teenage intern.
From ABCNews.go.com:
"New York teen discovers new planet while interning with NASA"

https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-teen-dis ... d=68169897

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