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In before the usual trolls with their lack of interest in astronomy, and their regurgitation of the "we can never go there, whine whine whine, so no one should have any interest in this article, or this discovery, or in this topic."
..."close" is a relative term when we're talking about objects in space. In the case of TOI 700 d, "close" means that the planet is hanging out at a distance of around 100 light-years. That's still an incredible distance that we have absolutely no way of traversing at the moment, but it's far closer than many other newly-discovered exoplanets.

2 posted on 01/07/2020 10:58:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

I’d think the Good Lord would not have put all these stars and planets in the universe if He didn’t intend us to go out there someday. Just my opinion.


5 posted on 01/07/2020 11:04:55 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: SunkenCiv

Too far away in terms of a human lifetime at current technology but perhaps not when thinking in geologic time. Assuming our star system travels at approximately 514,000 miles per hour around the galaxy, 100 light years is about 1,303 years away.


7 posted on 01/07/2020 11:11:00 PM PST by eldoradude (Drink whiskey and you won't get worms)
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To: SunkenCiv

Close is a relative term in any scale.


22 posted on 01/08/2020 12:11:32 AM PST by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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