Scientists Accidentally Find a 'Very Exciting' Unique Exoplanet Has More Water Than Earth

Newsweek via MSN ^ | 28 Jul 2021 | Ed Brown

[blueplum]

Scientists have accidentally discovered details about a "very exciting" planet orbiting a nearby star system, which is thought to contain more water than Earth....

...It orbits a sun-like star around 50 light years away from us that is visible with the naked eye, has a mild atmospheric temperature and appears to contain a large amount of water.

Researchers already knew that the planet was there because previous studies of the star, called Nu2 Lupi, showed that it had three planets orbiting it called b, c, and d.

...Using Cheops, researchers determined that planet d has a radius 2.5 times bigger than Earth's and goes around its star once every 107 days or so. It also has a mass around 8.8 times that of Earth's, and in our solar system would orbit somewhere between Mercury and Venus....

...The research, titled "Transit detection of the long-period volatile-rich super-Earth Nu2 Lupi d with CHEOPS" was published in the journal Nature Astronomy on June 28..

[DaiHuy]

Mars...238 million light years?

Another proud public school graduate😁

Just a refresher, a light year is the distance light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at roughly 186,000 miles per second. Mars is a lot closer than that

[lee martell]

Yes. That was my Goofball Error du Jour. Copy in haste, repent in leisure.
If I could quickly delete it, I would have.

[usconservative]

not that we would hesitate for even a second to pollute another biosphere

Earth first. We can strip mine the other planets for our electric car batteries later. (/sarcastic-humor)

[mcshot]

Ben Rich “We already have the means to travel among the stars but these technologies are locked up in Black Projects…and it would take an act of God to ever get them out to benefit humanity. Anything you can imagine, we already know how to do.” “We now have the technology to take ET home. No, it won’t take someone’s lifetime to do it.

??

[Dr. Sivana]

So, what was the fate of “a”??

It's core was unstable. Oddly, a small object appeared to be launched from it shortly before it blew apart.

[Dr. Sivana]

Just a day-tripper voyage compared to reaching the nearest star system of Alpha Centauri. (You’re gonna need one helluva bigger ship to get there and back).

If we send Kevin Costner to perform there, it need not be a round trip.

[oldasrocks]

Send Bernie and all his anti American friends with him to create the perfect planet.

[oldtech]

We could send all the liberals there; a fresh start.

[DaiHuy]

lol, Yes, we have all been there. It was more a dig at the public education system than you.

[SunkenCiv]

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[M Kehoe]

Hi.

Let’s ask Elon Musk to build a probe to determine if the planet is inhabitable.

What am I thinking? We’ll all be dead before it gets there.

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