psychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1110arrow-down16cross-posted to: space@lemmit.onlinespace@lemmy.world
arrow-up1104arrow-down1external-linkNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.compsychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square49fedilinkcross-posted to: space@lemmit.onlinespace@lemmy.world
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoI guess you could argue it’s many many millions of miles, doesn’t have to exclude the total being in the billions, trillions or beyond. Though now I’m trying to think if there is any unit of measurement that it would be literal millions of away. Light seconds maybe?
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 months agoThere’s ~31 million seconds in a year, so that’s getting closer.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoHmm so that overshoots a little into billions of light seconds. I’ve got it: millions of light minutes away! (70ish million if my math is right)
I guess you could argue it’s many many millions of miles, doesn’t have to exclude the total being in the billions, trillions or beyond.
Though now I’m trying to think if there is any unit of measurement that it would be literal millions of away. Light seconds maybe?
There’s ~31 million seconds in a year, so that’s getting closer.
Hmm so that overshoots a little into billions of light seconds.
I’ve got it: millions of light minutes away! (70ish million if my math is right)