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NASA dicit:

In a generic brick building on the northwestern edge of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center campus in Greenbelt, Maryland, thousands of computers packed in racks the size of vending machines hum in a deafening chorus of data crunching. Day and night, they spit out five quadrillion calculations per second. Known collectively as the Discover supercomputer, these machines are tasked with running sophisticated climate models to predict Earth’s future climate.

But now, they’re also sussing out something much farther away: whether any of the more than 4,000 curiously weird planets beyond our solar system — or exoplanets — discovered in the past two decades could have the ingredients necessary to support life.

Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/LK Ward (USRA): Lead Producer/Claire Andreoli (NASA/GSFC): Lead Public Affairs Officer/Lonnie Shekhtman (ADNET): Lead Writer/Alex Kekesi (GST): Lead Visualizer/Anthony DelGenio (NASA/GSFC GISS): Lead Scientist/Avi Mandell (NASA/GSFC): Lead Scientist/Michael J. Way (NASA/GSFC GISS): Scientist/Chris Smith (USRA): Animator/Aaron E. Lepsch (ADNET): Technical Support/Music: “Machine Learning” by Jon Cotton and Ben Niblett; “No Wave” by Julien Vignon; “The Missing Star” by Matthew Charles Gilbert Davidson; all from Universal Production Music