Nasa says newly discovered 'weird' planet with 'unknown' atm

Nasa says newly discovered 'weird' planet with 'unknown' atmosphere is remarkably similar to Earth


Nasa says newly discovered ‘weird’ planet with ‘unknown’ atmosphere is remarkably similar to Earth
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A ‘weird’ planet recently discovered has excited scientists in their hunt for extraterrestial life.
Researchers from Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of New Mexico discovered exoplanet TOI-1231 b orbiting an M dwarf star – otherwise known as a red dwarf.
Scientists were able to characterise that star, and measure both the radius and the mass of TOI-1231 b. This then gave them the necessary data to calculate density, and hypothesise what the atmosphere is made of.
The planet, a temperate sub-Neptune sized body with a 24-day orbit, is eight times closer to its star than the Earth is to the sun, but its temperature is similar to our home planet because the red dwarf itself is less potent.

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