Pic of the Day
Pic of the Day
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- sarahfailin0
This is an artist's illustration of Kepler-62f, a planet in the "habitable zone" of a star that is slightly smaller and cooler than ours. Kepler-62f is roughly 40 percent larger than Earth.A team of planet hunters estimates that about 22 percent of the Sun-like stars in our galaxy may have planets about the size of Earth that are bathed in similar amounts of sunlight — and potentially habitable.
- we need to SMS 'emprophetone
- i wonder if that means gravity is 40% stronger too. It'd be curious to see the longterm it's effects on the human body—especial internaljaylarson
- this makes me want to play civilizationlajj
- Come visit earth, the galaxy's trailer park.ETM
- Yeah, it says "Larger" but it's hard to tell if that means more massive or more voluminous. More mass=More gravitysarahfailin
- More G means we'd adapt smaller bodies. It'd crunch our spines and make us littler. Less G gets you the opposite.sarahfailin
- Maybe it's already inhabitedgoldieboy
- depends on density and rotation for gravitydoesnotexist
- it's inhabited by hobbits?prophetone
- how does one become an illustrator that gets to make these?OP31
- like this:
http://www.youtube.c…sarahfailin - Depends on it's mass, more mass = more gravity.chossy