Solar system with 6 planets orbiting in-sync discovered in Milky Way
Miles O’Brien:
Well, there's two instruments involved.
There was a NASA instrument called the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS. TESS has been in orbit for about five years, and it has been very busy. It has found no less than 7,000 planet candidates; 500-plus of them are confirmed, and it's just getting started as it looks all throughout the heavens.
So the planet-hunting business is very busy. There was also a European satellite called the CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite involved. Now, the follow-up will be with the James Webb Space Telescope. They will take a look at these six planets and try to characterize their atmosphere.
Is it a bunch of gas, hydrogen, or could there possibly be some water on those planets?
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