• callyral [he/they]@pawb.social
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    11 months ago

    There’s always a relevant xkcd!

    Yeah I didn’t know we were mostly looking at planets in the Milky Way, but it makes sense. Rocky planets are very tiny compared to other stuff in the universe so it’s gotta be hard detecting them millions of light years out.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah it’s hard to even make out individual stars in other galaxies, let alone planets around them.

      Only chance we have of seeing life in other galaxies is if they have built stuff like Dyson swarms.