NASA's TESS mission discovered its 1st Earth-sized, habitable zone planet
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ranging from the galactic poles down to near the galactic equator. As a result of this surveying strategy, the polar regions see more observing time, making TESS more sensitive to smaller and more distant planets in those systems.TESS works by surveying different slivers of the sky one month at a time in succession.... [+]
have three independently recurring flux dips, corresponding to the three innermost detectable planets of that system: TOI 700b, c, and d, with d representing an Earth-sized, potentially habitable world.Appearing in 11 independently viewed TESS sectors, TOI 700 possesses at least 3 planets orbiting it.... [+]
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