Snopes: Did NASA discover a new planet?

[FakeNoose]

In April 2021, NASA discovered an “Earth-sized, habitable planet” located 300 light-years from Earth.

The so-named Kepler-1649c was found while scientists were looking through old observations from the agency’s Kepler mission, an initiative retired in 2018 that was aimed at discovering other terrestrial planets that may contain water. Previously, a computer algorithm misidentified the planet.

Kepler-1649c is 1.06 times larger than Earth, and receives about three-quarters the amount of light, which suggests that the exoplanet may have a similar temperature to our planet. Exoplanets like Kepler-1649c orbit around other stars, whereas all of the planets in our solar system orbit around the Sun.

While Kepler-1649c is outside of our solar system, it orbits within its star’s habitable zone, otherwise known as the “Goldilocks zone.” This means that the area where a rocky planet is orbiting is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface.

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(link) https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/did-nasa-discover-a-new-planet/

[soothsayer]

1. Boy and girl planets?

[lagomorph777]

11. The "picture" of Kepler 1649c is pure artistic fantasy.

We actually know almost nothing about it, beyond what's in the article.

However, it does sound like one of the better candidates for being "earthlike," to the degree that we can say today.

[soothsayer]

13. Boy and girl planets (artist's impression)

[Buns_of_Fire]

2. 300 light-years away? I better go pack a lunch.

And you kids, go use the bathroom before we leave!

(And no, we're not stopping at Stuckey's.)

[getagrip_already]

3. are we there yet? n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. Almost. And stop picking on your little sister.

(Thinking to myself: Did I remember to turn off the gas in the kitchen?)

[FakeNoose]

4. We need to perfect that warp drive real soon!

[Shermann]

8. Except warp drives tear apart the fabric of spacetime

So even in the unlikely event we figure out how to build them, we'll do a lot of irreversible damage flying around in them.

Stupid Cosmos.

[OriginalGeek]

9. lol why should the cosmos be treated special?

The only reason we haven't already torn up space is because it's hard to reach yet. But we are getting there!

space garbage intensifies!

[marie999]

15. Or fold space.

[Tommy Carcetti]

6. They discovered Ceti Alpha VI. nt

[kirkuchiyo]

12. THIS is Ceti Alpha V

Ceti Alpha VI exploded 6 months after we were left here...

At least that's what I remember off the top of my head without looking it up.

And if you don't get this be an enterprising young lad/lass and look it up

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Keebler-1649c, otherwise known as Planet of the Elves. nt

[Politicub]

10. tl;dr version: Yes, but not in our solar system.

[soothsayer]

14. NIMSS

[struggle4progress]

16. I remember when there was only one putative exoplanet

Now there seem to be thousands but only about a dozen seem to have 0.9-1.1 earth's mass

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/discovery/exoplanet-catalog/