Posted on 07/03/2025 6:08:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently detected a planet that could possibly sustain life based on temperature readings, which has a mass approximately 100 times the size of Earth.
The planet, which astronomers believe is orbiting a young red dwarf star approximately 34 light years away, has been dubbed TWA 7b and is roughly the size of Saturn.
An initial analysis suggests the planet has a temperature of near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, which is warm enough to support life. Scientists believe life can grow and reproduce starting at about 5 degrees Fahrenheit and as high as 251 degrees Fahrenheit, per ABC News.
"Our observations reveal a strong candidate for a planet shaping the structure of the TWA 7 debris disk, and its position is exactly where we expected to find a planet of this mass," lead researcher Anne-Marie Lagrange said in a statement.
If the finding is confirmed, it would mark the first time that the James Webb Space Telescope was used to capture a direct image that led to the discovery of a planet, the outlet reported.
More information on the finding can be viewed in the Nature journal article here.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09150-4
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Possibly. $4T budget increase and we can know for sure...........oh shucks, maybe next one we see....
DON’T WE HAVE ENOUGH TROUBLES HERE ON EARTH??
WTH DO WE NEED MORE?
If we blast off by 7 AM, do you think we could make it by dinner time? 😜
Well...it is a planet with a red dwarf sun so what say we transport all the red dwarf-brained liberals to the planet and call it a day?
How much is Warp 7 speed? I thought Warp 7 meant 7 times the speed of light. Or were you being facetious?
There's a bunch of YouTube videos from "experts" that say you can't go faster than the speed of light, but I don't put much stock in "experts".
Superb idea. Keep all those REDS together.
...and with mass 100x Earth’s the gravitational force would be crippling to most life forms with skeletons, right?
So would gravity be 100 times greater than the Earth?.
When I get there I am going to open an HVAC company!!
Life as we know it..................
I’m not sure how that works.
BRAVE AI:
Moon Earth Mass Comparison
The mass of the Moon is significantly smaller than that of the Earth. The Moon’s mass is approximately 7.34 × 10²² kg, which is about 1.2% of Earth’s mass.
This means that the Earth’s mass is roughly 81 times greater than the Moon’s mass.
For comparison, the Earth’s mass is approximately 5.97 × 10²⁴ kg.
Therefore, the Moon’s mass is about 1/81 of Earth’s mass.
The moon’s gravity is significantly weaker than Earth’s, approximately 1/6th the strength. This means an object on the Moon would weigh about 16.5% of its weight on Earth. For example, a 100 kg object on Earth would weigh about 16.5 kg on the Moon.
The exoplanet’s surface gravity would be a little less than 10% greater than that of the Earth.
Perfectly habitable, if you are a cephalopod
Cthulhu!............................
Thank You!..................
Very weak reporting. Little information.
Yeah I was going to read it until it had a mass 100 times the size of Earth. Not very far. I am sure it will show up somewhere else where they know the difference between size and mass.
Sorry, I meant about 13% greater than the Earth.
So, I would gain about 25 pounds...........🙄
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