Scientists want to book the James Webb Space Telescope to take a closer look at the planet as soon as possible.
on August 12, dozens of researchers from institutions around the world confirmed the existence of TOI-1452 b using the Transiting Exoplaney Survey Satellite as well as the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic in Canada and the MuSCAT3 telescope in Hawaii.
The planet is thought to be around 70 percent larger than Earth and nearly five times heavier. It orbits its star once every 11 days or so, and is thought to be temperate. It also orbits in a binary star system, in which two stars orbit one another at a distance roughly two-and-a-half times that from our own sun to Pluto.
What is interesting about the TOI-1452 b is that evidence suggests it might be an ocean world. In fact, it is one of the best candidates for such a planet ever to be found, according to Charles Cadieux, a Ph.D. student at the Université de Montréal who led the international team of researchers to study the planet.
"Its radius and mass suggest a much lower density than what one would expect for a planet that is basically made up of metal and rock, like Earth," Cadieux said in a universityAnalysis has suggested that water might make up as much as 30 percent of the planet's mass—a proportion similar to some solar system moons like Titan or Ganymede.
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