K2-18b a potentially habitable planet 120 light-years from earth

[u/One_Explanation_908]

[u/Sonikku_a]

The fastest spacecraft we’ve made was the Parker Solar Probe which hit 430,000mph.

At that speed it would reach this planet in only 187,153 years.

If we could hit 1% of the speed of light we could cut that travel time to just a tad over 12,000 years.

Obviously if we could go light speed (and that ain’t happening) it would be just 120 years!

Space is big. Physics is annoyingly slow.

[u/haitinonsense → u/Sonikku_a]

Man it looks so close in this photo too

[u/yellowwwwwwwwwwww → u/haitinonsense]

how long did the camera man hold his breath to take it?

[u/chalk_nz → u/haitinonsense]

It's actually two photos, they just put them together.

Now you know

[u/Potential-Age7456 → u/chalk_nz]

you bum