NASA Observatories Detects New Planet Orbiting Young Star

From CBS Los Angeles:

PASADENA (CBSLA) — NASA’s TESS and Spitzer missions have discovered a new planet orbiting what they called “a unique young star.”

The new planet, called AU Mic B, was discovered orbiting AU Microscopii, a star still surrounded by a disk of debris left over from its formation, according to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. The planet is described to be about as large as Neptune, weighing less than 58 times Earth’s mass, and circles the young star in 8.5 days.

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