New brown dwarf discovered with TESS

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new brown dwarf. The newly found object, designated TOI-2119b, turns out to be about the size of Jupiter but over 60 times more massive than the solar system’s biggest planet. The discovery is reported in a paper published February 17 on arXiv.org.


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Source: Phys.org