<h5>What do we know about this Super-Earth?</h5><p>Astronomers have found a "Super-Earth," or a planet larger than our own, circling a star some 137 light-years away. The name of this planet is TOI-715b. It orbits a red dwarf, which is smaller and cooler than our Sun. A second planet could possibly be orbiting the same star.</p><p>Astronomers discovered the planet with NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). Astronomers say the planet is around one and a half times the width of Earth. The newly discovered planet is said to be close enough to its star to be in the habitable zone.</p><p>The second planet may be slightly larger than Earth and located just inside the habitable zone. The habitable zone is said to be the distance a planet has from a star at which the planet's temperature allows liquid water to exist on its surface.</p><p>Georgina Dransfield of the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, led the team behind the discovery. The team published a paper on their discovery in the journal named Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Still, further research on the planets will be done.</p><h5>What is NASA’s TESS?</h5><figure class="image"><img src="https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/newsahoot.appspot.com/o/astronomers-find-a-super-earth%2FTESS.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=d001f104-f0be-4ae3-a2ca-23963ee0ad7e"><figcaption>An illustration of TESS in space. Photo by NASA.</figcaption></figure><p>It is a satellite launched in 2018 by NASA to help discover exoplanets or worlds outside our solar system. TESS detects and helps in studying asteroids, stars, and other distant galaxies.</p><p>Since its launch, the satellite has helped astronomers in locating various planets orbiting relatively nearby stars. This has allowed additional studies of the stars and planets with on-ground and space-based telescopes and other ways.</p><h5>Why are astronomers searching for such planets?</h5><p>With the Earth’s resources slowly getting extinguished, scientists have been working to discover a habitable home where humanity can shift to in the future. This will be done to avoid the extinction of the human race in case Earth becomes uninhabitable.</p><p>However, moving to another planet is not possible yet. We currently don’t have the required technology to shift to different planets, and it will be many years before such technology can be developed. But you don’t need to worry. Earth still has enough resources to last thousands of years. Still, we must try to save our planet so humans and the Earth don’t suffer.</p>

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