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[–] [email protected] 97 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is the planet special or is it a bait headline?

[–] [email protected] 111 points 2 months ago (4 children)

6.9 times larger than earth

Fucking exo-planet

is it even special though

What a time to be alive

[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I get what you mean but there's almost 6,000 exoplanets in NASA's catalog so one imagines it isn't as huge of a deal to find a new one as it would have been when say, Hubble was new. To that end it presumably happens often enough that you wouldn't get the meme's scenario of a 50 year career vet getting all spiteful because a kid beat him to the punch.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

They even have had surveys on citizen science sites like zooniverse where any of us could evaluate data from stars looking for the dips that could signify a potential planet. It's all very cool, but I kind agree with all the data and technology we have now it's way easier to find new ones.

Zooniverse is a very cool website for citizen science! For anyone interested: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/mschwamb/planet-hunters-ngts

[–] drislands 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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 22 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

That's too big to be special.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 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.