Ross 128 b: An earth-like planet 11 light years away?

[Brian G Turner]

The BBC reports how a star system 11 light years away appears to host an earth-like planet in the star's habitable zone - the big question being whether it's fertile like earth, or sterile like Venus: Nearby planet is a top target for life

 

[Serendipity]

Hm... in 79,000 years it'll be even closer... me thinks it's time to start interstellar colonisation plans now!

 

[Brian G Turner]

An interesting part of this article points out that Luyten's Star, at 12 light years away, is also a red dwarf that appears to have a viable Earth-like planet: We just sent a message to try to talk to aliens on another world

Our neighbourhood might be starting to get a little crowded.

 

[night_wrtr]

Now we just need better spaceships for travel.

 

[Mike Donoghue]

Anybody know if there is any progress on making telescopes that can see these planets in Hubble-like quality?

 

[LordOfWizards]

Hi Mike, You know about this one? How many exoplanets has Kepler discovered?

Edit: And this is the next upcoming one (2019). Planets & Origins of Life - Webb/NASA

 

[Serendipity]

Has anyone considered looking at dark albedos in the Kuiper Belt (and Oort Cloud if the objects are large enough) to identify those darker objects that might have had similar thinnish sooty atmospheres... after all in the classical Kuiper Belt there are two types of objects - the colder redder and brighter lot and the hotter more inclined to the elliptical orbit lot. In fact the Nice model does not fully explain this distribution as it stands and maybe, just maybe this sooty atmosphere business could be a missing contribution...

 

[Mike Donoghue]

Hi Mike, You know about this one? How many exoplanets has Kepler discovered?

Edit: And this is the next upcoming one (2019). Planets & Origins of Life - Webb/NASA

WOW!! I knew about the Kepler, but not about the spectroscopy capability of the Webb! I am excited about this one. Just imagine the headlines if an atmosphere similar to Earth's is measured. Thanks for the article, LordofWizards.

 

[LordOfWizards]

WOW!! I knew about the Kepler, but not about the spectroscopy capability of the Webb! I am excited about this one. Just imagine the headlines if an atmosphere similar to Earth's is measured. Thanks for the article, LordofWizards.

No Problem! There are roughly 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Just looking around at our little neighborhood we've already found more than 1000 exoplanets. It shouldn't be much longer until we find an Earthlike one.

 

[BAYLOR]

No Problem! There are roughly 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Just looking around at our little neighborhood we've already found more than 1000 exoplanets. It shouldn't be much longer until we find an Earthlike one.

Even if could get there , we can't land and breath the air.

 

[J Riff]

Giant Red Ants lifeforms, heavily overpopulated, interested in our solar system. Send the Orville.