Gliese 12 b, a temperate Earth-sized planet at 12 parsecs discovered with TESS and CHEOPS
Gliese 12 b, a temperate Earth-sized planet at 12 parsecs discovered with TESS and CHEOPS
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Corey S Powell (@coreyspowell@mastodon.social)
ends up on https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/1/1276/7679807#455880802
ngl, skipped to conclusions
12 parsecs is about 40 light years.
The nearest star (Proxima Centauri) is 1.3 parsecs away.
The nearest galaxy (Andromeda) is over 700,000 parsecs away.
The scale of the universe is incomprehensible.