psychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 个月前NASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up1103arrow-down15cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up198arrow-down1external-linkNASA found a super-Earth. It's in a tantalizing place.mashable.compsychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 个月前message-square49fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 个月前I guess you could argue it’s many many millions of miles, doesn’t have to exclude the total being in the billions, trillions or beyond. Though now I’m trying to think if there is any unit of measurement that it would be literal millions of away. Light seconds maybe?
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 个月前There’s ~31 million seconds in a year, so that’s getting closer.
minus-squarepsychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 个月前Hmm so that overshoots a little into billions of light seconds. I’ve got it: millions of light minutes away! (70ish million if my math is right)
I guess you could argue it’s many many millions of miles, doesn’t have to exclude the total being in the billions, trillions or beyond.
Though now I’m trying to think if there is any unit of measurement that it would be literal millions of away. Light seconds maybe?
There’s ~31 million seconds in a year, so that’s getting closer.
Hmm so that overshoots a little into billions of light seconds.
I’ve got it: millions of light minutes away! (70ish million if my math is right)