The NASA planet hunting TESS mission has only been surveying the sky since July, but has already made outstanding discoveries.
New data fromTESS has uncovered a saturn sized planet.
TOI (TESS Objest of Interest) 197.01 is considered to be a hot saturn. Its similar in size to the planet and its orbit its host star at a close distance every 14 days, which creates a high surface temperature on the planet.
The host star is 5 billion year old and slightly heavier than the earths sun.
TESS is surverying an area in the sky that is 400 times larger than what kepler observed, including 200,000 of the brightest nearby stars. Over the cameras on board will stare at at different sectors of the sky for days at a time.
This enables NASA scientists to survey the entire sky.