Scientists Discover Habitable 'Eyeball' Planet

LHS 1140b is a planet with a distinct eyeball-like appearance. Recently spotted by the JWST, this tidally locked water planet has become a fascinating candidate for extraterrestrial life.

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[DavidTrejo]

🙂: “Where are you from?”

👁️: “Eyeball.”

🤔: “that explains a lot”

[Diaxminator]

We got an eyeball lookin ahh planet before GTA 6

[funny.school.slander]

Everybody gangsta until a huge ship gets shot down from orbit 💀💀

[jknott]

So that's where the Residents came from!

[piiriuu]

Should have named the planet "4546B"

[masterfizz]

This is the planet where "flat earther" is actually correct !

[sirfer]

Rotation and orbit are not the same. A planet rotates on its axis but orbits a planet so 25 days is the orbital period. A rotational period is what is called a day.

[rogerphelps]

Why doesn't any atmosphere that gets around to the cold side of the planet freeze out. Given enough time all of tthe atmosphere will meett this fate.

[dancoroian]

Can we stop for a moment and appreciate that Angela has somehow discovered a supermaterial capable of creating unbreakable paperclips?? Surely Nobel-worthy materials science right there...

[my.names.robb.with.two.bs]

Loved the clip of the xenomorph as you said alien life.

[dancoroian]

Wait how is a "bar orbit" different than a circular orbit? Isn't it just a collection of circular orbits that are now synchronized instead of randomly orbiting near each other?

[dancoroian]

I thought red dwarfs were way too active to sustain complex life?

[theoriginalmonstermaker]

Hmmmnn... I wonder what kind of life could "evolve" there ?

Is there enough mineral/ energy/ composition variation/ density to foster life formation?
(Life tends to take advantage of the liminal; areas btwn shore and sea, deep sea vents expelling "nutrients", etc... change promotes change)

[Jenkins]

If the temperature is that good, just inject some life on it.

[kobetv]

If there’s alien life on that planet along with a ocean then that planet if def subnauticia

[mission]

nitrogren and water are not that special:
we should be looking for reactive compounds in planetary atmospheres.
standalone oxygen in an atmosphere is extremely unlikely in the universe

[Hydra-V]

What is this, like, the eleven thousand and fifty seventh "candidate"?

[Ana-bwgm]

It's got strong radiation. Keep looking.

[uncletiggermclaren]

. . . that place gunna has some storms, boy.

[psilovecybin]

Humans be like:
I'm special hurr durrr,
life must be very scarce in the universe
That's why we're special.


m8 don't ask how I know but there are billions of planets with simple and complex lifeforms in the universe.
yoif have to be absolutely self centered and delusional to think you're the only intelligent form of life in the universe