University of Texas: Planet Finder Validates Its First Habitable-Zone Exoplanet, Mini Neptune
February 22, 2020
February 22, 2020
FORT DAVIS, Texas, Feb. 22 [TNSscientificresearch] -- The University of Texas issued the following news release:
Astronomers have validated their first exoplanet with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, one of the world's largest telescopes, located at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory.
About twice the size of Earth and possibly 12 times as massive, the planet could be similar to Neptune, but in miniature. Ca . . .
Astronomers have validated their first exoplanet with the Habitable Zone Planet Finder instrument on the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, one of the world's largest telescopes, located at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory.
About twice the size of Earth and possibly 12 times as massive, the planet could be similar to Neptune, but in miniature. Ca . . .