Posted on 01/11/2023 12:40:32 PM PST by Red Badger
NASA has discovered an Earth-sized planet that is considered "habitable."
On Tuesday, at the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle, Washington, it presented the finding.
According to postdoctoral fellow at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California Emily Gilbert, “This is one of only a few systems with multiple, small, habitable-zone planets that we know of.”
“That makes the TOI 700 system an exciting prospect for additional follow up. Planet e is about 10% smaller than planet d, so the system also shows how additional TESS observations help us find smaller and smaller worlds,” she explained.
The newly discovered planet is labeled TOI 700 e. TOI 700 b, c, and d have previously been spotted by NASA. D, like its newly discovered counterpart, is considered to orbit a "habitable zone."
Known as TOI 700, the system stems from a small, cool, red dwarf star sequence. Red dwarfs are small compared to the Sun. In fact, they're considered the smallest main sequence of stars, per NASA.
NASA defines a habitable zone as being in "the range of distances from a star where liquid surface water could be present at some point in a planet’s history."
Scientists expect more details to be revealed about this system in the future.
Oh, good. Another location in the galaxy for the leftists to ruin.
How about we get there first and not let them land?
It seems both of these details would be barriers to habitability.
I suppose the wokists will start fussing about the use of the term “dwarf star” next.
We have highly paid government employees engaged full-time in pursuing utter fantasies.
Someone needs to bring Elon Musk in to clean house. A four month contract should suffice.
Let’s go already.
Been here
1972
USS Nick Sand
I wonder if it has a good view of Uranus...
Probably tidal locked.
What is ‘tidally locked’?
Took a trip and never left the earth?............
Q’onoS
Like our moon is tidally locked to teh Earth so that we see only one side.
Planets can be tidally locked as well to their stars.
For a long time it was thought Mercury was tidally locked to the Sun, but it slowly rotates on like a 88 day schedule.........
What will be the first thing the Communists do if they ever owned the solar system?
Rename Uranus...Ouranus.
Only from the backside..................
Send all the leftists there, and us normies can stay here and set things right again.
Venus rotates very slowly retrograde (it is tilted at 177.4 degrees) and its synodic day (from sunrise to sunrise) is 116.75 days. It is in the same position relative to the earth every 584 days—which is 5 times its synodic day. So it looks like the earth has an influence on Venus’ rotation.
Mercury is even weirder....................
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