psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.compsychothumbs@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareTransient PunklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·8 months ago It’s in a tantalizing place. 137 light-years away
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·8 months agoWhile that is kind of close to Earth in the grand scheme of things, the tantalizing place they’re referring to is the habitable zone around its star where the temperatures are right for the planet to have liquid water on the surface.
minus-squareMango@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoIt makes sense if you know who Tantalus is.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoYeah it really works in terms of water being tantalizingly visible but impossibly out of reach.
137 light-years away
While that is kind of close to Earth in the grand scheme of things, the tantalizing place they’re referring to is the habitable zone around its star where the temperatures are right for the planet to have liquid water on the surface.
It makes sense if you know who Tantalus is.
Yeah it really works in terms of water being tantalizingly visible but impossibly out of reach.