id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body” data-component=”trackCWV”> The job of NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is simply surreal. Imagine traveling a thousand years back in time and then explaining to someone how future scientists will have a machine that detects alien worlds floating at distances beyond the capacity of human imagination. That’s TESS.Since 2018, this space-borne instrument has literally found thousands of exoplanets.
We have eyes on one , another that seems and even an orb that — sideways.On Wednesday, international scientists announced that one such foreign realm, dutifully hunted by TESS, may be covered in a blanket of life’s elixir: water. I’m not sure about you, but I’m getting flashbacks to that scene in Interstellar where Cooper lands on a world with waves the size of skyscrapers. This possible “ocean world,” according to the team’s study, published this month in , lives some 100 light-years away from Earth, Al Jazeera News Today orbiting within a binary star system nestled into the Draco constellation.
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