Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered an interesting extrasolar planetary system consisting of a K-dwarf host star, a Jupiter-sized planet and a white dwarf. The finding and parameters of the system, designated TOI-1259, were presented in a paper published January 7 on the arXiv pre-print repository.
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https://phys.org/news/2021-01-astronomers-planetary-gas-giant-exoplanet.html