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An illustration of the 3 planets around a star known as GJ 357. Photo: NASA
NASA announced Wednesday that its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has uncovered a potentially habitable planet just 31 light-years away from our solar system.
TESS member and associate professor of astronomy Lisa Kaltenegger, who led the international team and who is also director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute, said in a statement the discovery of the exoplanet, named GJ 357 d, “is humanity’s first nearby super-Earth that could harbor life.”
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