Astronomers have discovered 85 possible planets outside our solar system with temperatures potentially cool enough to sustain life.
These exoplanet candidates are similar in size to Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune, and were discovered using data from Nasa’s Transitioning Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
TESS enables scientists to observe dips in the brightness of stars, known as transits, caused by objects passing in front of them.
Typically, at least three transits need to be seen to discover an exoplanet in this way, in order to determine how long they take to orbit their star.
Do you sustain life? Be a lot cooler if you did
It’s always nice to know that I don’t have any original thoughts.
Proof: this comment
Can’t be living on any lame planets.
They might be cool enough to sustain life, but are they cool enough to wear camouflage cargo pants and wrap-around oakly sunglasses?
Was one of them earth?
Now that I understand the infinite nature of the universe, I am certain that we are not the only life, and existence is slightly less mysterious.
But are they also hip and rad?