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New Exoplanets Discovered: Secrets Await in TOI-1453

3/21/2025

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Astronomers at the University of Liège have made an exciting discovery, identifying two exoplanets—TOI-1453 b, a rocky super-Earth, and TOI-1453 c, a low-density sub-Neptune—orbiting the distant star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years away in the Draco constellation. Future observations with the James Webb Telescope promise to unveil their atmospheric secrets and compositions.

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Astronomers at the University of Liège have made an exciting discovery, identifying two exoplanets—TOI-1453 b, a rocky super-Earth, and TOI-1453 c, a low-density sub-Neptune—orbiting the distant star TOI-1453, located 250 light-years away in the Draco constellation. Future observations with the James Webb Telescope promise to unveil their atmospheric secrets and compositions.