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b_b  ·  2591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 7 Earth-Size Planets Identified in Orbit Around a Dwarf Star

I feel like NASA needs to temper their "WE HAVE THE GREATEST ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND TOMORROW AT 2:00PM" kind of press releases. This is exciting, if incremental, work on exoplanet discovery. If they discovered liquid water, or O2/CO2 in the atmosphere of a planet, then make that press release. I'm constantly disappointed by what should be really exciting news, due to their overexuberant hype.





am_Unition  ·  2591 days ago  ·  link  ·  

totally agree, but funding