VIVA – Increasingly modern technology allows researchers to look further and more into the universe for signs of life.
Just now the Sky at Night team did some exploration planet outside the Solar System find exoplanet which is covered by ocean.
The study caught the attention of the space community. An exoplanet found orbiting the ocean-dominated star L98-59 allows for the potential for life.
The planet is one of three originally discovered in 2019 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and has a mass only half that of Venus. Express, Tuesday, October 12, 2021.
TESS searches for objects in the sky and looks for shadows cast by planets as they pass in front of their parent star.
This method allowed astronomers to measure the size of the planets and revealed that all three were likely very small and rocky.
This method is also able to identify that some planets are in the habitable zone, where liquid water could potentially survive on their surfaces. All three have attracted the attention of astronomers because of their similarities to the inner planets in the Solar System.
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