Pi

Its story

Pi Mensae is a yellow star, almost a twin of the Sun, just 60 light-years away —and home to two confirmed worlds. The first, discovered in 2001, is a giant of about 12 Jupiter masses on an eccentric orbit of nearly six years. The second, announced in 2018, was the very first exoplanet detected by NASA's TESS mission: a super-Earth completing its year in just 6.3 days. A modest star turned by chance into a milestone in the search for other worlds.