September 7, 202212:07 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121465588/new-planet-super-earth-life-nasa
The telescopes of the SPECULOOS Southern Observatory in the Atacama Desert, Chile. The telescopes were used to confirm and characterize a new planet discovered by NASA, which led to the discovery of another nearby planet.
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An international team of scientists says it has discovered two new “super-Earth” type planets about 100 light-years away, one of which may be suitable for life.
Unlike any of the planets in our solar system, the nearly 1,600 knownsuper-Earthsare larger than Earth, but lighter than icy planets like Uranus and Neptune.
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Astronomers find a new planet that’s mostly made of iron
Researchers at Belgium’s University of Liègeannounced Wednesdaythat they found another onewhile using Earth-based telescopes to confirm the existence of a different planet initially discovered by a NASA satellite in the same solar system.
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