Unfortunately, the atmosphere is 100% Covid.
What is the name of the planet?
What are its temperature and atmosphere like?
50 light years away?
Not exactly a baseball’s toss in distance.
But then, I have to remember, Mars is at least what?
Some 238. MILLION Light Years away from earth, and we have already managed to send23 cameras there to peep around.
So, you never know.
Any water gotten from this exoplanet would have to be full sterilized and analyzed before use.
They can make a movie about it. Maybe have Kevin Costner have the lead.
So what? I am from Missouri—prove it.
“howed that it had three planets orbiting it called b, c, and d.”
So, what was the fate of “a”??
“Planet d also seems to have more water than Earth does. But scientists think it will be in the form of either high-pressure ice or hot water vapor.”
But it’s a dry heat.
Only fifty light years away? Let’s sign up all congress, senate and executive branch. Build rockets in a year, escape the pandemic for good!
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
50 years away at warp 1.
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.
Europa, a moon around Jupiter, has more water than the Earth . It is only 34 light minutes away.
Why wait for them to come here like all of our sci-fi novels predict?
-PJ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu2_Lupi
Planet “b”: Mass: 4.6 x Earth; Diameter: 1.48 x Earth; Orbit: 11.5 days
Planet “c”: Mass: 11.3 x Earth; Diameter: 2.6 x Earth; Orbit: 27.6 days
Planet “d”: Mass: 8.8 x Earth; Diameter: 2.6 x Earth; Orbit: 107.3 days
And a “G” main sequence star, too; not one of the much, much more common and dimmer “Red Dwarf” stars. All three planets orbit within 0.5 AU and are likely too hot to maintain liquid water.
Focus of the article is Planet “d” because of its longer orbit period and the possible presence of water in detectable quantities. Water or water vapor? Maybe not a Super Earth, but a Super Venus?
With a mass 8.8 times that of Earth and a diameter 2.6 larger, humans could live under Planet d’s gravity which would be about 1.3 times that of Earth.
https://www.azcalculator.com/calc/surface-gravity-calculator.php
And unless there is something consumable in the water, this exciting discovery is worthless. Not even Culligan will go that far.
wy69
Congress can spend several trillion dollars a year. Why don’t they just pass a law saying we can travel a trillion miles a year?
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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