NASA recently surprised the whole planet with an absolutely surprising announcement, the American space agency saying that it had discovered the new Earth, that is, a planet that has an ecosystem very similar to that of our planet. We are talking about a planet that is very far from the Earth, but those from NASA have analyzed it quite well and are quite sure that it can support life as our planet does at the moment.
NASA discovered this planet with the help of the TESS satellite, it is currently named TOI 700 d, and according to the researchers, it would be at a fairly "small" distance from Earth, only 100 light-years away. The planet discovered by NASA would be at a sufficiently large distance from the star of its galaxy to not have high temperatures on the surface, and the presence of water is also another good sign that it can support life.
NASA: INCREDIBLE announcement, the New Earth would have already been discovered
NASA discovered the new Earth, but the biggest problem is to actually reach it, and that's because that distance of 100 light years is very difficult to cover with the technologies we have at our disposal. 1 light year represents about 9000 billion kilometers, as a distance, and if there is a distance of 319 million kilometers between the Earth and Mars, you can imagine how far we would have to go to this planet discovered by NASA.
NASA says that the time required to travel to Mars is 6-8 months, and if we multiply this period by the distance to that planet, we would realize that it would take extremely many generations of people to get there. NASA discovers many planets with the help of its satellites, and this is very beneficial for everyone, but none of them are in our galaxy, so it is impossible to reach them, no matter how much we would like it.
NASA still does not have any method to travel at the speed of light, so until someone succeeds in doing this, we will only be able to look at distant planets, without actually being able to explore them.
