TOI-132 b is a fascinating exoplanet discovered in 2020 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). This speedy world orbits its star, TOI-132, closely enough to give us a stellar light show each time it passes in front of its sun, allowing us to catch glimpses of its existence through tiny dips in starlight. Though it doesn’t yet have a charming nickname, TOI-132 b’s discovery adds to the growing family of planets found by TESS, an orbiting planet hunter using a special CCD array camera to scan the skies. While it’s far beyond our reach, this planet sparks our imagination about the variety of worlds spinning around distant stars in the vast cosmic neighborhood called space.
