Image courtesy of Mark Garlick.
Joel Kontinen
For those who want a holiday from Earth, the perfect
spot would be to a trip to a super-Earth. Only that it is situated some 72 light-years from Earth.
“Amadeo Castro-González, an astronomer at the Spanish
Astrobiology Center who led a recent study describing the steamy planet, says
the find could represent a new class of exoplanets, something between a rocky
planet and a gas giant.” he says. Castro-González and colleagues used TESS
data to estimate that the planet is 1.5 times bigger than Earth.
Researchers think the temperatures on the planet
called TOI-244 b are thought to rise to more than 2000°C