TESS Satellite Discovered Its 1st World Orbiting 2 Stars

Researchers working with data from NASAs Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered the missions first circumbinary planet, a world orbiting two stars. The planet, called TOI 1338b, is around 6. 9 times larger than Earth, or between the sizes of Neptune and Saturn. It lies in a system 1, 300 lightyears away in the constellation Pictor. The stars in the system make an eclipsing binary, which occurs when the stellar companions circle each other in our plane of view. One is about 10 more m