NASA Space Telescope Spots Its Third Planet
Author(s) -
Katherine Kornei
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
eos
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/2019eo113489
Subject(s) - planet , astrobiology , spitzer space telescope , astronomy , space (punctuation) , spots , physics , telescope , computer science , biology , botany , operating system
A planet 3 times as large as the Earth was detected by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite in a relatively leisurely orbit—the longest yet detected by this telescope—of 36 days.
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