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Originally Published 16 days ago — by Live Science
The sun is technically classified as a G2V main-sequence star, often called a dwarf star, but it is much larger than what is typically considered a dwarf star. It is a yellow, hydrogen-fusing star that will eventually become a red giant in about 5 billion years. Despite its name, the sun appears yellow due to atmospheric scattering, and it is the largest object in our solar system.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Space.com
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a "warm" exoplanet, TOI-4127 b, with twice the mass of Jupiter orbiting a distant dwarf star. The exoplanet takes 56.4 days to orbit its host star and has a highly eccentric orbit that brings it to within around a third of the distance between the Earth and the sun from the star. The team thinks it has the capability of becoming a hot Jupiter if another celestial object perturbs its orbit. TESS has identified over 6,200 exoplanet candidates since its launch in April 2018.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by Phys.org
Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet, TOI-4127 b, using NASA's TESS. The planet is a warm Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbiting a dwarf star and is more than two times as massive as Jupiter. The planet has a highly eccentric orbit and an equilibrium temperature of about 605.1 K. The researchers concluded that the planet may be a "hot Jupiter" progenitor, but only if a perturbing companion is present.