Posted by
timothy
on from the sometimes-my-stuff-is-found-this-way-too dept.
wishus writes "Looking for clumps in the dust around a star allows astronomers to find new planets, like this one, that would be undetectable by gravitational wobble methods."
Little chance for life
by
Gamasta
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· Score: 4, Interesting
I didn't read about the age of the star, but if this is a young solar system and the "dust hasn't settled", then maybe it could harbour life in future. But so far dust is bombing the planet (so I understand was done the observation), I wouldn't take it as possible. But this seems like one of the best candidates...
And only 10 lightyears away... we still need that worm-hole technology, if there is such thing. Maybe we could ourselves settle on that planet, in the future.
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I didn't read about the age of the star, but if this is a young solar system and the "dust hasn't settled", then maybe it could harbour life in future. But so far dust is bombing the planet (so I understand was done the observation), I wouldn't take it as possible. But this seems like one of the best candidates...
And only 10 lightyears away... we still need that worm-hole technology, if there is such thing. Maybe we could ourselves settle on that planet, in the future.
reason defies logic