Scientists rediscover lost planet 'NGTS-11b' after 2 long years: Reports

Around two years ago, Scientists from NASA reportedly discovered a lost planet far away from Earth. planet has been named as NGTS-11b and it was discovered using high techlogy telescope called TESS. 

Lost planet NGTS-11b found by scientists

scientists from University of Warwick in UK had discovered NGTS-11b around 2 years ago in year 2018 using NASA's TESS telescope. TESS stands for Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and is capable of finding objects far away in . This telescope is originally used for spotting exoplanets. 

name NGTS-11b came after scientists from University of Warwick in UK using telescopes at Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) in Chile. 

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After discovery of planet in 2018, it went missing and scientists were unable to find it. TESS telescope is an essential tool as it scans a major portion of sky for only 27 days and it relies on transit method to tice planets. This is reason why many of longer period planets only pass once in telescope’s data and NGTS-11b revolves around star which is distant from Earth. distance between Earth and NGTS-11b's a star is 620 light-years away, according to university's website.

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Lost Planet NGTS-11b is said to be similar in size and mass to Saturn, however, its orbit is of 35 days. scientists also found out that planet has a temperature of only 160°C, cooler than Venus and Mercury. scientists revealed that spotting of NGTS-11b could guide way for discovery of a world within habitable ‘Goldilocks zone’ in a distant solar system. Warwick team was led by Dr Samuel Gill from Department of Physics at University and study has been published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. Dr Gill mentioned importance of rediscovery of NGTS-11b by saying: "se discoveries are rare but important since y allow us to find longer period planets than or astromers are finding. Longer period planets are cooler, more like planets in our own Solar System”. 

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