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NASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place. (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by psychothumbs to c/space
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[โ€“] psychothumbs 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Mango 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes sense if you know who Tantalus is.

[โ€“] psychothumbs 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it really works in terms of water being tantalizingly visible but impossibly out of reach.