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Spanish-Led Team Confirms New Planet in Habitable Zone
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Key Points:
- Spanish astronomers have discovered the TOI-1752 system, located about 337 light years from Earth, which contains two planets with contrasting characteristics.
- TOI-1752 c, twice the size of Earth, has an estimated temperature of around 18°C and orbits its star every 32 days, placing it in the optimistic habitable zone.
- The planet TOI-1752 c could potentially have liquid water and an atmosphere, increasing its potential habitability according to the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia.
- The other planet in the system orbits very close to its star and may have a molten rock surface, described as a "world of lava."
- The discovery was aided by NASA’s TESS satellite detecting brightness dips during planetary transits and confirmed through observations from the Carlos Sánchez Telescope at the Teide Observatory.
