Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
3 Earth-like planets in our neighborhood
#1
This is making news internationally. Three potentially Earth-like planets have been discovered orbiting an ultracool cool dwarf star in the solar neighborhood. Admittedly the system is 40 light years away with a solar system quite different to ours, but it's a significant discovery.

The observations were taken by a few different telescopes around the World, but UKIRT on Mauna Kea had a significant role.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/02/health/thr...index.html

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vao...17448.html
Reply
#2
This is very cool. It reminds me of one of my favourite Heinlein novels from when I was a kid - "Time for the Stars". Now where are all the telepathic twins?

Just call me Mike
Me ka ha`aha`a,
Mike
Reply
#3
A couple of links which might be of interest to some.

NASA article:
http://www.nasa.gov/feature/promising-wo...dwarf-star

ESO podcast with some background info:
https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1615a/
Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 2 Guest(s)