Tuesday, February 7, 2023

A new neighbor?

We just found a potentially habitable, Earth-sized planet...and it's "only" 72 light years away.

In cosmic terms, that's next door.

The planet circles an M dwarf star. Unfortunately, it's very close to the star and while it does have an atmosphere, it's certainly tidally locked.

So, probably not of much use to us, but an atmosphere makes it interesting anyway... 

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