{"id":670977,"date":"2020-10-26T09:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670977"},"modified":"2020-10-26T09:10:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T13:10:06","slug":"the-first-habitable-zone-earth-sized-planet-discovered-with-exoplanet-survey-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=670977","title":{"rendered":"The first habitable-zone, Earth-sized planet discovered with exoplanet survey spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, was launched in 2018 with the goal of discovering small planets around the Sun&#8217;s nearest neighbors, stars bright enough to allow for follow-up characterizations of their planets&#8217; masses and atmospheres. TESS has so far discovered seventeen small planets around eleven nearby stars that are M dwarfs\u2014stars that are smaller than the Sun (less than about 60% of the Sun&#8217;s mass) and cooler (surface temperatures less than about 3900 kelvin). In a series of three papers that appeared together this month, astronomers report that one of these planets, TOI-700d, is Earth-sized and also located in its star&#8217;s habitable zone; they also discuss its possible climate.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-10-habitable-zone-earth-sized-planet-exoplanet-survey.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The first habitable-zone, Earth-sized planet discovered with exoplanet survey spacecraft<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, was launched in 2018 with the goal of discovering small planets around the Sun&#8217;s nearest neighbors, stars bright enough to allow for follow-up characterizations&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}