Scientists discover potentially habitable planet roughly 146 light-years from Earth, 4 times closer than the next best planet in a habitable zone; surface temperature may be below -94 degrees

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• Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  How the is -94 degrees in any way habitable?

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  • Pistcow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Antarctica gets to -132?

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah and its not really habitable by humans. Its hard to just be there on Earth where there is oxygen.

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  • plantfanatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Same way mars is.

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  • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s not really any data other than a rough distance from its star. The atmosphere could be thick enough and with the right combination of greenhouse gases that the temperature at the equator is 23°C year round. We do know that it’s only receiving ~30% of the energy from its star as earth does from the sun, which is what they’re basing the low temperature estimates on.

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    • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The article itself also says -70 which, still very cold, is much better.

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• Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please tell me they’ve named it Hoth

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  omw, in our of here

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