7 points

Didn’t even know the Earth was interning at NASA.

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Is the planet special or is it a bait headline?

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6.9 times larger than earth

Fucking exo-planet

is it even special though

What a time to be alive

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Well…the headline only says the planet is 6.9 times as big as Earth. Jupiter is at least that large, last time I checked, so without more context I also don’t know what is special about it.

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I think that it’s more impressive to identify something that’s only 6.9x the size of earth, given that the smaller it is the harder it would be to detect.

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Actually, Earth is around about the largest that rocky planets tend to get. Look at the gap between Earth and Uranus, it’s huge. Planets in the middle size are rare. This planet is a super-earth type planet.

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For real. Confirming the existence of any exo planet is a huge technological feat and yet now it’s happening non stop. The first ever confirmed exo planet was 1995 and now we’ve got a catalog of almost 6,000 confirmed. Wild times!

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9 points

That’s too big to be special.

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I mean spotting it in only 3 days feels like a pretty big feat in of itself, unless this kid had access to a database on one particular star’s brightening and dimming or it’s potential weeble wobbling about, he did in 3 days what usually takes weeks at a minimum if it’s a planet the size of jupiter or bigger.

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42 points

But is it 42.0 light years away?

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Yes and it rotates 80085 times per day!

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Fun fact, that’s well within the ballpark of how fast pulsars rotate.

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12 points

Rounded, that’s a clean 42 light years.

I bet it’s Golgafrincham.

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35 points

Planetary intergalactic.

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19 points

“I LIKE MY SUGAR WITH COFFEE AND CREAM!”

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8 points

🤖

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19 points

Another dimension, another dimension

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7 points

🤖

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29 points

Simpsons did it.

In Bart’s Comet

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Reality is so unoriginal

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