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Astronomers discover trio of young planets orbiting a teenage sun in a river of stars – CBS News
The system is located in a newly-discovered Pisces-Eridanus stellar stream, which is less than 3% the age of our solar system.
Floating in a stream of young stars, astronomers have spotted a trio of neighboring planets similar to Earth, orbiting a much younger version of our own sun.
The team found the young, hot worlds using observations from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), according to a new study in The Astronomical Journal. The planets are orbiting a star called TOI 451.
The system is located in a newly-discovered Pisces-Eridanus stellar stream, which is less than 3% the age of our solar system,…
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