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Sorry Trekkies, Real Life Planet Vulcan Was Just Killed By Science (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/space
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https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ad34d5 (open access)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd be far more freaked out if they discovered not only a planet there, but with characteristics that resembled Vulcan. Fiction can get some things close to correct sometimes, but that would be disturbingly too close.

[โ€“] PunnyName 4 points 5 months ago

Especially the humanoid sentient species detail.