7 Earth-Like Planets Discovered 39 Light Years Away

[Raver]

This is very exciting news:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/...rappist-1-star

Basically, there are seven earth sized planets orbiting a dwarf star and the planets are very close to this sun and each other, but they are not boiling because the dwarf star is very weak compared to our sun. There could be possible liquid water and alien life in at least three of the planets because they are in the habitable zone.

[Skepsis]

Life is probably pretty abundant in the universe. There are likely countless life supporting worlds in the trillion+ galaxies with millions-billions of stars in each one.

[The Exception]

Darn! You beat me to it! I just logged into my account because I wanted to share this in the Interesting Articles thread.


Life or no life it is exciting news.

[Chae]

I heard of that. Before we ponder finding ways to go there we should fix humanity first though Otherwise, we will continue exploiting things there.

[Hot Scalding Gayser]

Yeah I saw this on the google home page and its pretty interesting. I am skeptical though they will find life. A planet that supports life has to be in such a 'sweet spot' zone that the odds are greatly against it. And tbh if its just some incredibly simplistic fungus I won't be interested. I'll only like if it there are campy over the top non Te Hollywood aliens.

[Tigerfadder]

It was some 39 lightyears away, the size of this universe is amazing but 39 lightyears is way to far away. its a needle in the hay scenario. :/