@psychothumbs to SpaceEnglish • 1 year agoNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square11arrow-up155arrow-down12cross-posted to: news
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.com@psychothumbs to SpaceEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square11cross-posted to: news
minus-square@psychothumbsOPlinkEnglish18•1 year agoWhile 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-square@psychothumbsOPlinkEnglish2•1 year agoYeah 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.