I made my impression of LHS 1140b (on the left in the picture) compared to Earth (photo is on the right).
James Webb Space Telescope detected potential indications of LHS 1140b to have in its atmosphere nitrogen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide, and that the surface of the planet might be mostly ice and partially covered in liquid water.
If this detection could be verified, it would be the first evidence of a secondary atmosphere around a potentially habitable exoplanet.
Although it is imaged usually as an eyeball, I believe such planets may tend to have at least slow rotation, especially when there are other planets in the system (there is at least a second one in this system), thus the planet on my image has some mix of water ice, water clouds, and thick air which looks bluish.
Credit: NASA, vleider
Cool-Frame-750 on
Not a scientist so excuse the stupid question. Does the size of the planet affect the gravitational pull . ? How does pressure work ? So in the deep ocean the pressure is measured by weight. Does that work on atmosphere as well?
jauhesammutin_ on
So it’s like a proto-earth, before cyanobacteria.
brihamedit on
If a habitable planet is much larger than earth, gravity would be very different right? So people can’t live there. What if gravity is much higher, people won’t be able to live there
UnconsciousUsually on
So what? You’d weight at least twice your Earth weight.
HelioCollis on
I would prefer a scientist impressions. Artists may think you can live on pure light for what I know!
DreamChaserSt on
This is one of the more enticing discoveries so far. TRAPPIST-1 hasn’t had much news around its potentially habitable worlds so far, and K2-18b might be a mini gas giant, an ocean can still be ruled out. LHS 1140b so far looks terrestrial, and could have a surface (even if its surface is ice), with an atmosphere more similar to Earth than the ice giants.
And there is value in studying these planets for astrobiology purposes even if it’s not “Earth-like”, to find the limits of terrestrial planets and habitability.
don-again on
Well, if it were LV-426 all we’d need it Weyland-Yutani to send some colonists to process that atmosphere a bit.
Decronym on
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|ETOV|Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”)|
|[H2](/r/Space/comments/1fbvyii/stub/lm516k3 “Last usage”)|Molecular hydrogen|
| |Second half of the year/month|
|[LV](/r/Space/comments/1fbvyii/stub/lm4w184 “Last usage”)|Launch Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”), see ETOV|
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Sensationalized/misleading titles or Unscientific content”
This should have been a link to a paper or analysis article. But I guess fan art is as good as anything. And yes, most ‘artist’ interpretation has no real validity, as we only really have clear pictures of planets in our solar system.
Natural_Intention_68 on
At 49 light years away, what would it take to get there with the current technology we have…. A Million Years?!?!
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I made my impression of LHS 1140b (on the left in the picture) compared to Earth (photo is on the right).
James Webb Space Telescope detected potential indications of LHS 1140b to have in its atmosphere nitrogen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide, and that the surface of the planet might be mostly ice and partially covered in liquid water.
If this detection could be verified, it would be the first evidence of a secondary atmosphere around a potentially habitable exoplanet.
Although it is imaged usually as an eyeball, I believe such planets may tend to have at least slow rotation, especially when there are other planets in the system (there is at least a second one in this system), thus the planet on my image has some mix of water ice, water clouds, and thick air which looks bluish.
Credit: NASA, vleider
Not a scientist so excuse the stupid question. Does the size of the planet affect the gravitational pull . ? How does pressure work ? So in the deep ocean the pressure is measured by weight. Does that work on atmosphere as well?
So it’s like a proto-earth, before cyanobacteria.
If a habitable planet is much larger than earth, gravity would be very different right? So people can’t live there. What if gravity is much higher, people won’t be able to live there
So what? You’d weight at least twice your Earth weight.
I would prefer a scientist impressions. Artists may think you can live on pure light for what I know!
This is one of the more enticing discoveries so far. TRAPPIST-1 hasn’t had much news around its potentially habitable worlds so far, and K2-18b might be a mini gas giant, an ocean can still be ruled out. LHS 1140b so far looks terrestrial, and could have a surface (even if its surface is ice), with an atmosphere more similar to Earth than the ice giants.
And there is value in studying these planets for astrobiology purposes even if it’s not “Earth-like”, to find the limits of terrestrial planets and habitability.
Well, if it were LV-426 all we’d need it Weyland-Yutani to send some colonists to process that atmosphere a bit.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
|Fewer Letters|More Letters|
|——-|———|—|
|ETOV|Earth To Orbit Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”)|
|[H2](/r/Space/comments/1fbvyii/stub/lm516k3 “Last usage”)|Molecular hydrogen|
| |Second half of the year/month|
|[LV](/r/Space/comments/1fbvyii/stub/lm4w184 “Last usage”)|Launch Vehicle (common parlance: “rocket”), see ETOV|
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So… fan art/speculation isn’t against rules?
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Sensationalized/misleading titles or Unscientific content”
This should have been a link to a paper or analysis article. But I guess fan art is as good as anything. And yes, most ‘artist’ interpretation has no real validity, as we only really have clear pictures of planets in our solar system.
At 49 light years away, what would it take to get there with the current technology we have…. A Million Years?!?!
Well now I have to fly there in Elite Dangerous.