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Gliese 12 b, a temperate Earth-sized planet at 12 parsecs discovered with TESS and CHEOPS (mastodon.social)

submitted 8 months ago by m3t00 to c/science

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ends up on https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/1/1276/7679807#455880802

ngl, skipped to conclusions

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[–] NewNewAccount 17 points 8 months ago

12 parsecs is about 40 light years.

The nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is 1.3 parsecs away.

The nearest galaxy (Andromeda) is over 700,000 parsecs away.

The scale of the universe is incomprehensible.

[–] TheDeepState 8 points 8 months ago

So, aliens, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not horribly far away, I guess.

[–] Cosmicomical 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just far enough to be effectively unreachable, lol :(

[–] KISSmyOSFeddit 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

With current tech we could easily get there in under 200000 years!

[–] Cosmicomical 3 points 8 months ago

Hmm I like your can-do attitude, but does the current tech include food and energy to actually have someone alive on the ship when it reaches destination? I doubt it, unfortunately.

[–] Num10ck 2 points 8 months ago

toss some tardigrades over there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I’ve been listening to a lot of Terrence Howard, and now believe we’re within a few years of FTL travel. Just need to get some NASA scientists to start listening to a B list actor.