Using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has detected a new warm Jupiter exoplanet located more than 1,000 light years away. The newfound alien world, designated TOI-2005 b, is about the size of Jupiter and orbits its host star on a highly eccentric orbit. The discovery was reported March 25 on the arXiv pre-print server.

NASA’s TESS is conducting a survey of about 200,000 of the brightest stars near the sun with the aim of searching for transiting exoplanets. So far, it has identified over 7,500 candidate exoplanets (TESS Objects of Interest, or TOI), of which 620 have been confirmed so far.

Located some 1,070 light years away from the Earth, TOI-2005 is a rapidly rotating F-type star. It has recently been monitored with TESS and a transit signal was detected in its light curve. Now, a group of astronomers led by Allyson Bieryla of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reports that this transit signal is of planetary nature.