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Astronomers discover most significant earth-like planet to date. Huge news
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:44 pm
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:44 pm
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After scanning the vast reaches of the cosmos for Earth-like planets where life might exist, astronomers have found one right next door.
A planet that is rocky like Earth and only slightly bigger has been discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri , the nearest star to our solar system, scientists reported Wednesday. It is probably in the not-too-hot, not-too-cold Goldilocks Zone where liquid water — a key to life — is possible, if the planet has an atmosphere. And it is a mere 4.22 light-years from Earth, or nearly 25 trillion miles.
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It is easily the closest potentially habitable planet ever detected outside our solar system — and one that could be reachable by tiny, unmanned space probes before the end of the century, in time for some people alive today to witness it.
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]It is 4.6 million miles from its red dwarf star, or just one-twentieth of the distance between Earth and the sun, creating an incredible orange sky with no blue, so it looks like a perpetual sunset.[/b] And if that's not different enough, the planet circles its star so quickly that its year is about 11 days.
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The planet doesn't rotate, so one side is always facing its star and the other side is always dark and colder.
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Yet in the vastness of space, Proxima b is practically just over the fence, "like your next-door neighbor," Butler said. Proxima b is more than 50 trillion miles closer than the previous closest potentially habitable exoplanet.
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This post was edited on 8/24/16 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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The planet doesn't rotate, so one side is always facing its star and the other side is always dark and colder.
Sounds a lot like my ex.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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unmanned space probes before the end of the century, in time for some people alive today to witness it.
That would be amazing
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
But can we masturbate there without burning in Hell?
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
planet is too hot on one side and too cold for running water on the other.
keep looking. does not really meet our requirements.
keep looking. does not really meet our requirements.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:48 pm to boosiebadazz
quote:Only if you choke the chicken underground.
But can we masturbate there without burning in Hell?
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The planet doesn't rotate, so one side is always facing its star and the other side is always dark and colder. It is bombarded with X-rays and ultraviolet light, but that wouldn't necessarily be fatal to life, since life can exist underground, scientists said.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:50 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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It is bombarded with X-rays and ultraviolet light, but that wouldn't necessarily be fatal to life, since life can exist underground,
Like Zion? Why wouldn't we just live underground on Earth? Why would I want to travel 25 trillion miles?
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:51 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Whatever you do, don't send Matt Damon to check it out.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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And it is a mere 4.22 light-years from Earth, or nearly 25 trillion miles.
Howdy, neighbors.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:53 pm to RogerTheShrubber
Don't ruin my moment, frontier gump!
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:55 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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And it is a mere 4.22 light-years from Earth, or nearly 25 trillion miles.
quote:Y'all cooking some chicken over there? Smells good.
Howdy, neighbors.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:57 pm to CelticDog
Surely there's a moderate temp band on the sides as it goes from hot to cold
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:57 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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25 trillion miles
That's how far I want to be from this planet after this next presidential election
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:58 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
By the time humanity is able to visit this planet with a probe or manned, we will have gained the technology to explore and inhabit our solar system with manned bases and robotic resource operations and vastly superior propulsion tech thereby increasing the available resources needed to eventually get to a nearby habitable zone planet.
I would wager within 100-200 years or so we are regularly sending out expeditions
I would wager within 100-200 years or so we are regularly sending out expeditions
Posted on 8/24/16 at 12:58 pm to RogerTheShrubber
y'all got any sugar? forgot it when I left the Kroger and now I'm stuck with this nasty unsweet tea
Posted on 8/24/16 at 1:00 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
With present technology, it could be reached in 43 years if a probe left today.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 1:01 pm to ThatMakesSense
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The planet doesn't rotate, so one side is always facing its star and the other side is always dark and colder.
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Sounds a lot like my ex.
Or our moon
Posted on 8/24/16 at 1:03 pm to Wtodd
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Or our moon
She definitely put on some serious Lbs that last I saw her.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 1:03 pm to cas4t
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y'all got any sugar? forgot it when I left the Kroger and now I'm stuck with this nasty unsweet tea
It's on the next shuttle (when it arrives from the Alpha Centauri system)
Will expedite through wormhole.
Posted on 8/24/16 at 1:05 pm to Cruiserhog
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Posted by Cruiserhog
I would wager within 100-200 years or so we are regularly sending out expeditions ReplyOptionsTop 00
I would wager not considering your lovely president has gutted NASA and ended the space programs.
Every year without further R&D is another year of advancement that's not gained.
Not to mention when we finally jump back in (God knows when) we'll have to rebuild it from the ground up.
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