TESS has notched another milestone.
, TOI-4600c is special for two reasons. Not only does it have the longest year, but at a frigid -110 degrees Fahrenheit , the newly found world is also one of the coldest among those spotted by TESS.
Astronomers are particularly excited about this discovery because"based on what we know about the exoplanets we found, so far, nothing really looks like the solar system," Ismael Mireles, a graduate student at the University of New Mexico and the lead author of the new study, said in aWith current observation methods, worlds with such long orbital periods have been notoriously hard to detect and harder still to confirm.
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