There’s a planet with boiling, churning oceans like the one in the movie Interstellar, only it’s farther away.
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- What did NASA discover?
- Why is this planet special?
- How did the experts react?
What did NASA discover?
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TOI-1452, a ‘Super Earth’ planet 100 light years away from us, was discovered by NASA last year.
Why is this planet special?
It has the mass of almost five planet Earths combined, although it doesn’t travel much faster around its own star than we do. TOI-1452 completes one rotation of the Sun in just over 11 days, while the Earth takes 365 days.
Astronomers also believe it could be an “ocean planet,” completely covered in water, like some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. A group of astronomers from the University of Montreal in Canada discovered the planet using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short.
How did the experts react?
It’s believed to revolve around a binary star system in the Draco constellation, and we better be sure about that because we can’t just go there and check it out. Instead, we must rely on specialists, and Professor René Doyon of the University of Montreal analyzed the discovery.
“I am very proud of this discovery because it demonstrates the high caliber of our researchers and instrumentation,” he said. “Thanks to the OMM, a special instrument designed in our laboratories called SPIRou and an innovative analytical method developed by our research team, we were able to detect this one-of-a-kind exoplanet.”
While this planet’s mass is significantly greater than ours, its size is about 70% larger and its density suggests it has very deep oceans. The world has been compared to ‘Planet Miller’, which is covered by a seemingly endless ocean in Christopher Nolan’s film Interstellar.
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Source: vtt.edu.vn