Researchers have discovered a new five-billion-year-old planet that is 60 times bigger than Earth using data from NASAs exoplanet-hunting space telescope, TESS.
The huge planet, named TOI-197.0 and dubbed “hot Saturn” because of its size and heat, is “one of the best described exoplanets of this type to date,” according to researchers at Aarhus University, Denmark, who led the international study.
The gas planet orbits much closer to its star than Saturn does our sun, which explains the hot climate, and so has a year of only 14 days. Research also shows the planet has a density of only 1/13 of that on Earth, and is approximately 60 times the mass of our planet.
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The asteroseismologists – stellar astronomers who study seismic waves – said its rare to have such precise information about a far-away planet, but the clear seismic waves around the star allow astronomers to determine factors like size, age, and mass.
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