Discovery Alert! 📣
@NASAWebb not only confirms a planet candidate found by @nasa’s TESS space telescope, it provides new science, determining the planet is rocky. We also get preliminary atmospheric info. Good science and *excellent* teamwork! https://go.nasa.gov/3XfmOgi
#NASAExoplanets
@NASAWebb not only confirms a planet candidate found by @nasa’s TESS space telescope, it provides new science, determining the planet is rocky. We also get preliminary atmospheric info. Good science and *excellent* teamwork! https://go.nasa.gov/3XfmOgi
#NASAExoplanets
Webb Confirms Its First Exoplanet
The planet is rocky and almost precisely the same size as Earth, but whips around its star in only two days.Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System