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NASA TESS Super Earth
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered several new exoplanets — planets orbiting stars outside our solar system — located just 31 light-years away from Earth. They are orbiting an M-dwarf star, called GJ 357 in the Hydra constellation. The star is 40% cooler than our sun and 1/3 of its mass as well as size. The first exoplanet discovered orbiting around the star was GJ 357 b.