NASA's TESS mission has discovered TOI-561 b. TOI-561 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star.
Vaishnavi U M
TOI-561 b | credits: NASA Exoplanet Exploration
What is your imagination about discovery of a new planet?
It's not only a imagination, its all about discovery.
NASA's TESS mission has discovered TOI-561 b. TOI-561 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits a G-type star. Its name TOI-561 b is derived from TESS Object of Interest (TOI). Its mass is 1.59 Earths, it takes 0.4 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.01055 AU from its star. Its discovery was announced in 2020. It is also a hot and rocky planet that is about 50 percentage larger than earth.
Information about a planet’s interior gives us a sense of whether the surface of the planet is habitable by life as we know it, even though, it is unlikely that it is inhabited today, it could be the precursor of many rocky worlds yet to be discovered around the oldest stars of our galaxy.- Stephen Kane (UC Riverside planetary astrophysicist and team member)
Scientists are currently researching more about relationship between the radius and mass of these planets. They are trying to get more insight about the exterior and interior structure of planets and are also in search of the possibility of life.
While the star is called a "Super Earth" due to the size and it requires less than half day to orbit it star. This located 280.5 light-years away in the constellation and is approximately 14 billion years old.
Unless the aliens are capable of resisting 3,140 degrees Fahrenheit on the exoplanet, the search for aliens goes on. So while TOI-561 b wouldn't be a nice place to visit, even if it is rocky like Earth, Venus and Mars. It would have a temperature of 2,480 Kelvin, tidally locked with a magma ocean on the permanent day side. It constitutes yet another clue that could help us in our avid search for other life out there in the Universe.
We are still exited for more discoveries about this Super Earth.