Did You Know A Year On This 'Ocean' Planet Is Only 11 Days Long?

There's a planet out there with boiling, churning oceans like the one in the movie Interstellar, only it's farther away.

What did NASA discover?

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TOI-1452, a 'Super Earth' planet 100 light years away from us, was discovered by NASA last year.

Why is this planet special?

It has the mass of nearly five planet Earths combined, although it doesn't travel much quicker around its own star than we do. TOI-1452 completes one rotation of the Sun in slightly over 11 days, whereas Earth takes 365 days.

Astronomers also believe it could be an 'ocean planet,' totally covered in water, like some of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons. A group of astronomers from the Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al in Canada discovered the planet while utilising NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS for short.

How did the experts react?

It's thought to circle a binary star system in the Draco constellation, and we might as well be sure of it because we can't just go over there and check. Instead, we must rely on the specialists, and Professor Ren¨¦ Doyon of the Universit¨¦ de Montr¨¦al discussed the discovery.

"I'm extremely proud of this discovery because it demonstrates the high caliber of our researchers and instrumentation," he said. "It is thanks to the OMM, a special instrument designed in our labs called SPIRou and an innovative analytic method developed by our research team that we were able to detect this one-of-a-kind exoplanet."

While this planet's mass is significantly more than ours, its size is roughly 70% larger, and its density suggests it has very deep oceans. The world has been compared to 'Miller's Planet,' which is covered by a seemingly endless ocean in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar.

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