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[-] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 94 points 3 months ago

Is the planet special or is it a bait headline?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 116 points 3 months ago

6.9 times larger than earth

Fucking exo-planet

is it even special though

What a time to be alive

[-] drislands@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago

Well...the headline only says the planet is 6.9 times as big as Earth. Jupiter is at least that large, last time I checked, so without more context I also don't know what is special about it.

[-] Starbuck@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

I think that it’s more impressive to identify something that’s only 6.9x the size of earth, given that the smaller it is the harder it would be to detect.

[-] DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 33 points 3 months ago

For real. Confirming the existence of any exo planet is a huge technological feat and yet now it's happening non stop. The first ever confirmed exo planet was 1995 and now we've got a catalog of almost 6,000 confirmed. Wild times!

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 months ago

That's too big to be special.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

I mean spotting it in only 3 days feels like a pretty big feat in of itself, unless this kid had access to a database on one particular star's brightening and dimming or it's potential weeble wobbling about, he did in 3 days what usually takes weeks at a minimum if it's a planet the size of jupiter or bigger.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 42 points 3 months ago

But is it 42.0 light years away?

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 3 months ago

Rounded, that's a clean 42 light years.

I bet it's Golgafrincham.

[-] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago

Yes and it rotates 80085 times per day!

[-] fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

Fun fact, that's well within the ballpark of how fast pulsars rotate.

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 35 points 3 months ago
[-] marduk@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 3 months ago

Another dimension, another dimension

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

“I LIKE MY SUGAR WITH COFFEE AND CREAM!”

[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 months ago
[-] Praxinoscope@lemm.ee 29 points 3 months ago
[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago

Reality is so unoriginal

[-] bert@lemmy.monster 26 points 3 months ago
[-] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 20 points 2 months ago

Idk what is news and what is a meme anymore. Either way let's go back to burning anyone that suggests anything.

[-] prex@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago
[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Didn’t even know the Earth was interning at NASA.

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