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NASA Missions Spy First Possible Survivor Planet Hugging White Dwarf St

From NASA via sci.space.science Admin@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 17 10:13:12 2020

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NASA Missions Spy First Possible Survivor Planet Hugging White Dwarf Star

Posted: 16 Sep 2020 08:00 AM PDT http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-missions-spy-first-possible-survivor-planet-hugging-white-dwarf-star

An international team of astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet
Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has reported
what may be the first intact planet found closely orbiting a white dwarf,
the dense leftover of a Sun-like star, only 40% larger than Earth.
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