TESS Finds a Planet That Takes 482 Days to Orbit, the Widest it’s Seen so Far

An artist's rendition of the two planets and star in the TOI-4600 system. One of them has the longest orbit of any planet yet found by TESS. Image Credit: Tedi Vick

We’re rapidly learning that our Solar System, so familiar to us all, does not represent normal.

A couple of decades ago, we knew very little about other solar systems. Astronomers had discovered only a handful of exoplanets, especially around pulsars. But that all changed in the last few years.

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