TOI-270 d Discovered: Boiling Oceanic World

It is said that the eye is the doorway to the soul. For as long as our human species has existed, that divine portal has turned its attention to the stars, and the heavens that hold them. When we consider that at the subatomic level, we are quite essentially made up of the stuff of stars, perhaps we do this as part of an ineffable and insatiable urge to look deeper into ourselves, and see the part of ourselves that is divine. After all, there is the notion that we are the universe experiencing itself in human form for a little while. Nevertheless, it can be said that we have turned to the stars for as long as history cares to serve us, and asked the greatest questions that this life has to offer. We look to them, and ask if there is life asides from our own out in the cosmos. In response, we come up with cunning answers, such as how there are only two possibilities — that life either does or does not exist elsewhere in the universe- and that the reality of this answer is remarkably frightening. Recent technological advancements have made it relatively easier to look out into the infinite universe in search of the answers to questions such as these. We see this in the evidence of the Hubble Telescope, and respectively the James Webb Space Telescope. While it can be said that everything is in space — a scripted sentiment — it almost seems the stuff of brilliantly articulated science fiction…