Posted on 07/29/2021 8:39:44 PM PDT by 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..
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
If they want to study strange places why not Cleveland, Ohio?
I meant 3 light years in debt.
Anything to disprove earths uniqueness makes “scientists” have spontaneous ejaculations in their Subaru hybrids world over
Is any science not political and leftist......armaments maybe
If it is closer to the sun than Venus, why hasn’t the water boiled away?
i love the new way of writing “science” articles
in the title they state explicitly it has more water than earth, IE its known to
go into the article, it is “thought” to have more than earth
ie they 100% do not KNOW
sloppy science
they are writing science fiction articles
it might, it may, its thought to, it could
its all speculation but they act like its known facts
LOL or NJ
Yes, but that estimate was made with the joint NASA/CDC PCR swabascope, which confuses atmospheres made of COVID19 and Influenza.
There’s a spaceship full of highly intelligent whales heading our way to investigate our planet and ... well just find a good place to hide is my advice.
Okay. Thanks. I didn’t look closely enough.
They use instruments called spectrometers, to examine the emitted light waves which allow them to determine the chemical composition of planets and other objects.
“Unfortunately, the atmosphere is 100% Covid.“
And an average person would weigh 350 pounds.
50 years away at warp 1.
Correction: 1200+ pounds.
“ would mean 100 pounds here would be 250 pounds there.
They’ll have to revise the BMI chart…
We strip-mined it.
Thanks.
OK more water than earth. Is it salt water? Sulphuric? Heavy water with deuterium replacing hydrogen? Gonna be difficult to move a desalination plant across the galaxy but maybe they can build atomic weapons - I mean, nuclear reactors to fuel interstellar space travel.
Yeah like the others said... Mars is not that far. Light years is really more about time than distance. How many earth years does it take to travel at the speed of light? 50 light years means it would take 50 earth years to get there traveling at the speed of light. Nobody knows if humans can even travel at the speed of light and afaik no technology exists to move matter that fast (though, some say light contains matter so I wouldn’t rule it out entirely).
Europa, a moon around Jupiter, has more water than the Earth . It is only 34 light minutes away.
I don’t believe the human body as it now exists, is made to survive that kind of travel for the needed periods of ‘time’. To move at necessary speeds, there are likely to be all kinds of steady, unrelenting pressures and temperature changes. A human would need to have an entire artificial environment built just to protect and maintain them. That’s a lot of heavy hardware.
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