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New exoplanet found has scientists excited.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:35 pm
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:35 pm
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So it's another super earth orbiting a red dwarf star. It is in the habitable zone so of course they act all excited in part to interest the public and hope it leads to more funding which is important. Everyone is interested in aliens so that's what they hit us with. I think they know that life probably couldn't have evolved there but it's worth a look anyway.
So it's another super earth orbiting a red dwarf star. It is in the habitable zone so of course they act all excited in part to interest the public and hope it leads to more funding which is important. Everyone is interested in aliens so that's what they hit us with. I think they know that life probably couldn't have evolved there but it's worth a look anyway.
This post was edited on 4/20/17 at 4:49 pm
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Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:50 pm to Commander Data
They are finding so many of these that the public isn't paying that much attention anymore 
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Posted on 4/20/17 at 8:30 pm to Commander Data
Based on discoveries in the 21st century there are an estimated 33 billion earth-sized planets in the Milky Way, 20 billion of which orbit dwarf red stars. This was exciting news at first but discoveries since have shown that red dwarf planets are generally unfavorable candidates for life because of the amount of radiation they receive, are tidally locked with their star or have been stripped of their atmospheres during the stars' early formative epochs.
There are surely exceptions to these generalizations, and LHS 1140b may be one, but the chances seem slim, again based on what we've seen so far. It's definitely worth a closer look. However, the number of potentially habitable planets is rising so fast that even better candidates may supplant this one for study by the James Webb Space Telescope when it launches next year.
There are surely exceptions to these generalizations, and LHS 1140b may be one, but the chances seem slim, again based on what we've seen so far. It's definitely worth a closer look. However, the number of potentially habitable planets is rising so fast that even better candidates may supplant this one for study by the James Webb Space Telescope when it launches next year.
Posted on 4/21/17 at 5:43 pm to Commander Data
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I think they know that life probably couldn't have evolved there but it's worth a look anyway.
Well... I would have to agree since evolution has not been proven to exist anywhere.
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