September 25, 2018

Artist's concept of the planet HD 39091c with its star (Image NASA/MIT)

An article to be published in the “Astrophysical Journal Letters” reports the discovery of the exoplanet HD 39091c, the first identified thanks to NASA’s TESS space telescope. It’s a super-Earth with a radius of 2.14 ± 0.04 the Earth’s and a mass estimated at 4.82 ± 0.85 the Earth’s. It’s very close to its star, which is a little larger than the Sun, with a year that lasts just over 6 Earth days.