I get what you mean but there's almost 6,000 exoplanets in NASA's catalog so one imagines it isn't as huge of a deal to find a new one as it would have been when say, Hubble was new. To that end it presumably happens often enough that you wouldn't get the meme's scenario of a 50 year career vet getting all spiteful because a kid beat him to the punch.

Well...the headline only says the planet is 6.9 times as big as Earth. Jupiter is at least that large, last time I checked, so without more context I also don't know what is special about it.

For real. Confirming the existence of any exo planet is a huge technological feat and yet now it's happening non stop. The first ever confirmed exo planet was 1995 and now we've got a catalog of almost 6,000 confirmed. Wild times!

That's too big to be special.

Fun fact, that's well within the ballpark of how fast pulsars rotate.

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