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Two Rocky Earth-Sized Exoplanets Discovered Around Nearby Star By NASA’s TESS
Daily Galaxy ^ | September 03, 2025 | Jessica Bennett

Posted on 09/03/2025 12:58:49 PM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 09/03/2025 12:58:49 PM PDT by Red Badger
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X-O Planet Ping!...................


2 posted on 09/03/2025 12:59:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Let us hope there are no communists or democrats on these places.


3 posted on 09/03/2025 1:03:01 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Red Badger

18 times more massive than Earth is not “Earth like”


4 posted on 09/03/2025 1:08:59 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I used to care, but things have changed ~ Bob Dylan)
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18 times more massive than Earth is not “Earth like”

Nearby is not really very near either.

5 posted on 09/03/2025 1:11:33 PM PDT by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: Red Badger
So that's where the LGM come from.
6 posted on 09/03/2025 1:12:57 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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Awesome


7 posted on 09/03/2025 1:13:06 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (All she is, is cackles in the wind.)
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To: Fai Mao

Neither is a temperature of 227 °C (440 °F).


8 posted on 09/03/2025 1:18:17 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: Red Badger

They are seeing a picture from around the year 1830 when the book of Morman was first published.


9 posted on 09/03/2025 1:26:00 PM PDT by Revel
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I want one of these new discoveries to be called LV-426....

Just one...


10 posted on 09/03/2025 1:29:44 PM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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"The planetary system lies about 195 light-years away..."

Yep... Just one jump away... Perfect for a weekend trip...

11 posted on 09/03/2025 1:47:10 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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Right. They are too close to their parent star.


12 posted on 09/03/2025 1:47:49 PM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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I could make that in a weekend.


13 posted on 09/03/2025 1:50:48 PM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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Lets hope we can send ours there!


14 posted on 09/03/2025 1:54:19 PM PDT by jmacusa ( Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: Revel
...the year 1830 when the book of Morman was first published...

Or, more importantly, Michael Faraday invents a method of electromagnetic induction.

15 posted on 09/03/2025 2:32:45 PM PDT by GingisK
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Both planets are rocky, orbit their star at short distances, and yet differ dramatically in terms of mass and density.

RockyBalboa RocketJSquirrel
(rotating around the Adrian-Bulwinkle binary star cluster)

IF they've recovered crashed UFOs and IF they're able to reverse engineer from them PERHAPS mankind might develop means of traveling that somehow bypasses speed of light limitation and colonize a habitable "Goldilocks" world.

My guess is that we exterminate ourselves long before that; but that's no reason to give up trying.

16 posted on 09/03/2025 2:32:57 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (is merely pawn on chessboard of life.)
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They named them Rocky 7 and Rocky 8.

17 posted on 09/03/2025 2:50:17 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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The planetary system lies about 195 light-years away,

Not exactly what I'd call nearby.

I think the nearest star is about 4.5 light years away, so if we could travel at the speed of light (a BIG if), it would make an exploratory mission do-able, say 4.5 years out, 1 year on station, and 4.5 years back, for a 10-year mission. You could probably find people to do that. But 195 years each way???

18 posted on 09/03/2025 2:51:14 PM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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19 posted on 09/03/2025 4:24:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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“...not likely habitable...”

A characteristic it shares with every other celestial object that is not Earth.

Are they studying this stuff because there’s no more lint in their belly buttons?


20 posted on 09/03/2025 7:44:30 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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