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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well...the headline only says the planet is 6.9 times as big as Earth. Jupiter is at least that large, last time I checked, so without more context I also don't know what is special about it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago

I think that it’s more impressive to identify something that’s only 6.9x the size of earth, given that the smaller it is the harder it would be to detect.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Actually, Earth is around about the largest that rocky planets tend to get. Look at the gap between Earth and Uranus, it's huge. Planets in the middle size are rare. This planet is a super-earth type planet.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Time to get the Helldivers it seems