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Long-period Jupiter-like exoplanet discovered with TESS
- February 2, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new extrasolar planet transiting a distant star. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-6692 b, is the size of Jupiter and has an orbital period of about 130 days. The discovery was presented in a paper published January 22 on the arXiv pre-print server.
Originally published at Phys.org