NASA discovers NEW planet dubbed ‘HOT SATURN’ during TESS mission

According to the new paper, the planet is around five billion years old and is bigger and heavier than the sun. 

Co-author of the study, Steve Kawaler, a professor of physics and astronomy from Iowa State University, claimed it is only a glimpse of what TESS can do. 

He said: “This is the first bucketful of water from the firehose of data we’re getting from TESS.

“The thing that’s exciting is that TESS is the only game in town for a while and the data is so good, we’re planning to try to do science we hadn’t thought about.