NASA’s Planet-Hunting Telescope Discovers Two Distant Planets

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(CBS Local) — An orbital telescope designed to hunt for worlds beyond our solar system has discovered two distant planets, officials said this week.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, better known as TESS, spotted “super-Earth” and “hot Earth” planets in solar systems at least 49 light-years away, marking the satellite’s first discovery since its April launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
While astronomers sa