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Discovery of a likely water world

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 5:56 pm
by Chich
An exoplanet,TOI-1452, has been discovered about 100ly from Earth. It is suspected of being a 'water planet' and is in an 11 day temperate orbit about an M4 Dwarf. Its mass is 4.82 times that of Earth but it has similar density so is made up of ligher materials, they estimate 30% water. Data was collected with the TESS exoplanet-hunting telescope and the SPIRou spectrograph. They will be placing it in the list for WEBB to get more results.

http://www.exoplanetes.umontreal.ca/spi ... h/?lang=en

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-just-fo ... ater-world