psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year 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 · 1 year agomessage-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·1 year 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-up4·1 year agoIt makes sense if you know who Tantalus is.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoYeah it really works in terms of water being tantalizingly visible but impossibly out of reach.
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.