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Water vapor/methane atmosphere detected on M-class H-zone exoplanet 39 LY away 2017-04-08 09:44:49 Post No. 8812174
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Water vapor/methane atmosphere detected on M-class H-zone exoplanet 39 LY away
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Zero chance of life existing on it, since the surface conditions would be similar to a hospital autoclave, but still this is a major discovery.
http://www.space.com/36368-atmosphere-found-on-nearly-earth-size-planet.html
For the first time, scientists have detected an atmosphere around a planet beyond our solar system that's just a little bit larger than Earth.
The exoplanet GJ 1132b, which orbits the dwarf star GJ 1132, is located about 39 light-years away from Earth. It has a radius about 1.4 times that of Earth and is 1.6 times Earth's mass, according to the new study. When the planet was first discovered, researchers called it a potential Venus twin because it's a rocky world with a very high surface temperature — and now, they've found that the planet and Venus might have a thick atmosphere in common, too (although it would have a different composition).
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>>8812174
>39 light-years
wow so relevant!
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>>8812195
>he thinks science should be limited by relevancy
Christfag tier.
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>>8812195
Detecting the atmosphere of a Venus-twin 39 lightyears away is a major step. 20 years ago this would have been front page in every newspaper on Earth.
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>>8812198
We're at the threshold of something great and present humanity is too fucking banal to appreciate it. They think only in terms of what they can directly exploit and aren't interested in advancing human understanding at all. I seriously hope we start a nuclear war and kill ourselves before an Earth-twin is discovered. Homo sapiens fucking deserves nothing better.
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>>8812174
>Zero chance of life existing on it, since the surface conditions would be similar to a hospital autoclave
Is there really no chance that a different form of life could be quite happy in those conditions?
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>>8812255
Probably not. Xenobiochemistry formulated around non-carbon-based life chemistry like silicon and phosphorus/nitrogen has never been demonstrated to work. Even extremophile bacteria couldn't live on Venus, let alone a Venus constantly scrubbed by stellar radiation from a dwarf star.
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>>8812174
Who gives a shit? Find earth like worlds around Alpha Centauri that we could actually reach.
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>>8812217
He's mostly right though
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>>8812198
>20 years ago this would have been front page in every newspaper on Earth.
I'm 50 and I say maybe 30, but not 20
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>>8812174
Neat
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