TESS Helps Reveal Multiple Planets, Including Promising World (VIDEO)

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Tour the GJ 357 system, located 31 light-years away in the constellation Hydra. Astronomers confirming a planet candidate identified by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite subsequently found two additional worlds orbiting the star. The outermost planet, GJ 357 d, is especially intriguing to scientists because it receives as much energy from its star as Mars does from the Sun. Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWra2Wvudk Download in HD: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13266

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