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New Earth-sized planet discovered, and it may be able to support life

LP 791-18d orbits a small red dwarf star about 90 light-years away in a constellation called Crater in the southern celestial hemisphere

Newsroom May 19 01:13

A new, Earth-sized planet has been discovered only 90 light-years away from us. In astronomical terms, that’s right next door. What’s more, it might be capable of supporting life.

Named LP 791-18d, astronomers detected the exoplanet through ground- and space-based observations by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and its now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope.

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LP 791-18d orbits a small red dwarf star about 90 light-years away in a constellation called Crater in the southern celestial hemisphere. The team that discovered the planet estimated its mass by measuring differences in the time it takes the planet to orbit its host star. The gravitational pull of other planets in the system causes these orbits.

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