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Scientists discover new Saturn like planet 60 times bigger than Earth

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet using NASA’s exoplanet-hunting space telescope, TESS. The exoplanet is said to be 60 times bigger than our planet and is five-billion-year-old planet. The exoplanet is dubbed TOI-197.0 or “hot Saturn” because of its size and hot temperature. The researchers at Aarhus University, say that this is “one of the ..

Topics: Astronomy • Discoveries of exoplanets • Exoplanet • Exoplanetology • Kepler space telescope • Kepler-62 • Lyra • Physical sciences • Planetary science • Search for extraterrestrial intelligence • Space observatories • Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite

Roundest known Space Object discovered

Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and the University of Gottingen in Germany have discovered the star Kepler 11145123, which is claimed to be the roundest natural object in space ever measured. The scientists have measured the stellar oblateness with unprecedented precision using asteroseismology. Asteroseismology is the study of the oscillations ..

Topics: Asteroseismology • Astronomy • Discovery Program • Exoplanets • Johannes Kepler • Kepler space telescope • Kepler-444 • Kepler-62e • Lyra • Physical sciences