A new study in the US has discovered a multi-planetary system, which researchers say could be an ideal target for studying planetary evolution and exoplanetary atmospheres.
According to the study, the multi-planetary system is home to a rocky ‘super-earth’ and three ‘sub-Neptunes’ orbiting around a bright sun-like star just over 200 light years away.
The researchers say the sizes of planets in the system, the similarity of the rocky planet to earth, and the similarity of the host star (HD 108236) to our Sun, makes it ideal to study planetary evolution.
The discovery was made using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope that is designed to search for exoplanets. The peer-reviewed findings were published in The Astronomical Journal this week.
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