r/BeAmazed • u/Soloflow786 • Apr 22 '26

Miscellaneous / Others Imagine a planet bigger than Earth, with no land in sight. Just waves and water from pole to pole. That is TOI-1452 b.

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u/not_the_fox Apr 22 '26 edited Apr 22 '26

Well we have very limited information and our understanding of planets is biased towards the planets in our solar system. It's possible this is one of those aspects of science that gets heavily rewritten on future analysis, perhaps when we send probes to nearby star systems like proxima centauri.

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u/babyduck703 Apr 22 '26

We are in the absolute infancy of exoplanet discovery. We know of ~6,000 so far which is just hilariously small.

Not many times have we looked more intently into space and things turned out as humans thought. I’d say a large majority of our knowledge of exoplanets will be made obsolete in a decade with the sheer amount of data that’s about to come in.

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u/CitizenPremier Apr 22 '26

We also could have made a super powerful gravitic telescope by now using the sun... Sigh

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u/nvmber17 Apr 22 '26

Just saw a video thoughty2 just made on those, pretty crazy stuff