There is a little bit of Naples in the extraordinary discovery of Nasa, the US space agency, which has identified a new habitable planet, similar to Earth: it is an extrasolar planet whose discovery was made thanks to Tess, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite space telescope.

There are also two Neapolitans in the team that led the search for: it is Giovanni Covone, professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Federico II University of Naples and Luca Cacciapuoti, master’s degree in physics in the Neapolitan university. The team, led by Emily Gilbert, of the University of Chicago, presented the discovery of the named planet TOI 700 during the American Astronomical Society annual conference in Honolulu, in the Hawaiian Islands.