INSIDEN24.COM – Along with advances in technology, recently the United States Space Agency (NASA) again discovered a planet that is said to be almost like Earth which has the possibility of being habitable by humans, the planet is named TOl 700 e.
In light of TOI 700 e, scientist Gilbert and his colleagues estimate that the planet is about 95% the size of Earth.
As a result, estimates suggest, the planet’s surface texture is likely rocky and it orbits every 28 Earth days.
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NASA believes it is a rocky planet 95 percent similar in size to Earth, a neighboring planet with similar life-bearing characteristics identified by TESS in 2020.
Emily Gilbert, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, who led the research, said that these are some of the small planets in the habitable zone.
“This is one of the few systems with several habitable zone minor planets that we know of,” he said.
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Emily Gilbert and her colleagues have presented the research at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society, which is being held this week in Seattle and virtually.
TESS finds planets by staring at the star for months at a time, looking for small dips in brightness that could indicate a planet passing between the star and the telescope.
The discovery of a planet similar to Earth in the solar system is the second time after NASA previously found a similar planet named TOI 700 d.
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At that time, the discovery was made with the help of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) planet-hunting spacecraft.
TESS has been hurtling into space since 2018, TESS found TOI 700 d in a habitable place after a month-long observation, looking for dips in brightness that could indicate the presence of planets or stars between the telescopes.
In comparison, the two potentially habitable planets, TOI d and e, have longer orbits of 37 days and 28 days, respectively.
