“A team of astronomers from Cornell University claim they’ve found the first potentially habitable Earth-like planet outside the Solar System using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).

The discovery of a star system called GJ 357 was announced today in a paper published by the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Its star is roughly one-third the size of our Sun and roughly 40 percent cooler, while being 31 light-years away hiding in the Hydra constellation — our cosmic backyard, in the grand scheme of things…”

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