Vanderbilt Astronomers Among NASA's TESS Mission Team to Discover a Rare Newly Formed Planet
June 25, 2020
June 25, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 25 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
Stars mapped out by Vanderbilt astronomers for exploration by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission and recently decommissioned Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the discovery of AU Mic b, a newly formed Neptune-like exoplanet located a relatively short 31.9 light-years away.
The exoplanet is named in connection with the star it orbits, AU Microscopii, referred . . .
Stars mapped out by Vanderbilt astronomers for exploration by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) mission and recently decommissioned Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the discovery of AU Mic b, a newly formed Neptune-like exoplanet located a relatively short 31.9 light-years away.
The exoplanet is named in connection with the star it orbits, AU Microscopii, referred . . .