IAA-CSIC led Spanish team finds 2 exoplanets orbiting same star
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Spanish astronomers just found two new exoplanets, TOI-1752 b and TOI-1752 c, orbiting the same star.
The study was led by researchers at the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), with contributions from the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands (IAC).
TOI-1752 b molten, c habitable candidate
TOI-1752 b is a wild lava world racing around its star in less than 1 day, with a surface so hot it's basically molten rock.
The real buzz is about TOI-1752 c: it sits in the star's habitable zone, has temperatures close to Earth's (around 20 Celsius), and could possibly have liquid water.
Scientists are excited to study its atmosphere and composition next, hoping to determine how similar it is to Earth.