psychothumbs@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to [email protected]@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square11linkfedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down12
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.compsychothumbs@lemmy.world to [Dormant] moved to [email protected]@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square11linkfedilink
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·2 years 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.worldBannedlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 years agoIt makes sense if you know who Tantalus is.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years 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.