NASA entdeckt potenziell bewohnbaren Exoplaneten 40 Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt

NASA announced the discovery of a planet 40 light years from Earth that orbits every 12.8 days and is possibly even habitable.

[Gliese 12 b](https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/gliese-12-b/) is a “super Earth exoplanet” that is nearly the same size as Earth or slightly smaller, according to a [NASA news release](https://science.nasa.gov/universe/exoplanets/nasas-tess-finds-intriguing-world-sized-between-earth-venus/). Exoplanets are planets outside of our solar system, [NASA’s website](https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/arizona-students-go-on-an-exoplanet-watch/) says.

“We’ve found the nearest, transiting, temperate, Earth-size world located to date,” Masayuki Kuzuhara, a project assistant professor at the Astrobiology Center in Tokyo, said in a statement. “Although we don’t yet know whether it possesses an atmosphere, we’ve been thinking of it as an exo-Venus, with similar size and energy received from its star as our planetary neighbor in the solar system.”

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