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NASA’s TESS discovers three hot planets orbiting a very young star

The Indian Express | 15/02/2021 05:06 PM | Click to read full article

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), astronomers have discovered a young star called TOI 451 with three planets revolving around it. The recently discovered mini solar system is located in the Eridanus constellation, which is a part of the Pisces-Eridanus stream.

The star of this system is 400 light-years away from us and is just 120 million years old, which makes it a lot younger when compared to our Sun.

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