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Distant 'ice ball' exoplanet discovered


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I love this stuff... thanks for sharing.

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A frozen planet... Cool!

I wonder if there are any tauntauns, or wampas, there.

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It seems as though at least twice in its history the earth was an ice planet, with the oceans frozen almost completely and life only surviving at thermal vents.  It appears it was tectonic activity that broke the grip of the ice.

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On 29/4/2017 at 9:04 AM, Frank Merton said:

It seems as though at least twice in its history the earth was an ice planet, with the oceans frozen almost completely and life only surviving at thermal vents.  It appears it was tectonic activity that broke the grip of the ice.

Considering that it's 13,000 light years away, it means that if in this very moment someone on that planet is looking at the earth, he would see a quite similar view, considering that 13,000 years ago we were at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum. 

As far as we know they could fight global warming right now. 

 

How fascinating! 

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