psychothumbs@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 个月前NASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up155arrow-down12cross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.compsychothumbs@lemmy.world to Space@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 个月前message-square11fedilinkcross-posted to: news@lemmy.world
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down1·9 个月前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.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 个月前Yeah 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.