New ‘super-Neptune’ exoplanet discovered with TESS

Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new hot, bloated “super-Neptune” exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2498 b, is about six times larger and 35 times more massive than the Earth. The finding was published May 16 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

​Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new hot, bloated “super-Neptune” exoplanet. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2498 b, is about six times larger and 35 times more massive than the Earth. The finding was published May 16 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Astronomy Planetary Sciences 

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