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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 month ago (3 children)

6.9 times larger than earth

Fucking exo-planet

is it even special though

What a time to be alive

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (2 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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month 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] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Actually, Earth is around about the largest that rocky planets tend to get. Look at the gap between Earth and Uranus, it's huge. Planets in the middle size are rare. This planet is a super-earth type planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Time to get the Helldivers it seems

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

That's too big to be special.