There's a chance that the newly discovered planet with twice the mass of Jupiter could eventually snuggle up to its star to become a hot Jupiter, but the two will need a cosmic matchmaker.
. TESS is in the midst of surveying around 200,000 bright nearby stars with the aim of spotting exoplanets around them.
TESS does this by observing tiny drops in light caused as these planets cross, or"transit," in front of their host star from its vantage point in a 13.7-day, highly elliptical orbit around Earth. NASA's TESS satellite is adept at spotting planets with short orbital periods that circle their star in 13 days or less. That's because the telescope has an observing period of 27.4 days and a minimum 13-day orbit should let TESS spot a transiting planet at least twice, the minimum number of transits needed to suspect the presence of a planet.
The method has been highly successful with TESS identifying over 6,200 exoplanet candidates since its launch in April 2018. Of these so-called"TESS Objects of Interest, or TOI" around 3,000 have been confirmed. Many of the exoplanets spotted by TESS thus far are"hot Jupiters," which are defined as worlds of a similar size to Jupiter or larger that orbit their stars extremely closely at distances of around one-tenth of the distance between the Earth andOrbiting a dwarf star slightly more massive than the sun and located around 1061 light-years away from Earth, TOI-4127 b, discovered by astronomers led by Pennsylvania State University researcher Arvind F.
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