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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WEBB Ping!.................
BGD = Big Gall Darn
Welcome to Flatland.
At Warp 7 it will only take us 37 days to get there!!! Letโs roll!!
The only way to be sure, of course, is to increase NASA’s budget.
And itโs gravity would make a human feel that they weighed 10,000 lbs?
Not the best choice for a relocation!
Let Rosie know. ๐๐ค
I'll pass.
“Webb Telescope discovers another life bearing planet THAT HATES TRUMP!”...................
Sounds like Krypton, and if it has folks, they would be superfolks on earth.
I’ll go to Arizona for that. it’s much closer.
But they would be supermen if they came to earth. Welcome Jorel!
Red Dwarf stars are a bad candidate for life. The habitable zone is so close to the star that anything in that orbit is seared occasionally by solar flares.
Yes, nobody’s home.................
“Red Dwarf stars are a bad candidate for life. The habitable zone is so close to the star that anything in that orbit is seared occasionally by solar flares.”
Yes. Still it would seem there could be some form of life in oceans of they exist there although I doubt we ever know for sure.
Pack your bags Pilgrims. We’re heading out. Wagons Ho!
” life can grow and reproduce starting at about 5 degrees Fahrenheit and as high as 251 degrees Fahrenheit”
Aren’t we being constantly lectured about a temperature rise of .3 degrees that’s going to cause the seas to rise, and kill us all?
Science is so confusing.
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