Discovered in 2018 by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) mission, planet LHS 3844b is located 48.6 light-years from Earth and has a radius 1.3 times that of Earth. It orbits a small, cool type of star called an M dwarf - especially noteworthy because, as the most common and long-lived type of star in the Milky Way galaxy, … Continue reading A Glimpse of a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface | NASA
After our Earthly scares last night - here are some interstellar scary places we shouldn't visit soon. via JPL's Eyes-Ranger Simon 🙂 No ownership claimed on material
In our search to find Earth like planets it seems we've now discovered one that may be suitable to support life encircling our nearest stellar neighbour. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/science/earth-planet-proxima-centauri.html?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits&_r=0&referer=https://getpocket.com/ Simon 😀 Credit: NY Times
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