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Scientists Discover Three Potentially Habitable Planets (mit.edu)
Scientists have discovered three Earth-sized planets that look ideally suited to search for signs of life beyond our solar system. A team of astronomers from MIT and the University of Liege detected three planets orbiting an ultracool dwarf star -- just 40 light years from Earth using a prototype telescope called TRAPPIST which is capable of looking at 60 nearby ultracool stars. NPR reports: The closest planet to the star orbits in about one and a half Earth days. From the planet's surface, the star would look like a reddish ball fixed to one spot in the sky. Scientists don't yet know the mass of the planets or what they're made of. Astronomers have discovered more than a thousand planets outside our solar system, but it's still rare to find ones that look promising in terms of habitability."These planets are Earth-sized, they are temperate -- we can't rule out the fact that they are habitable -- and they are well-suited for atmospheric studies," says Julien de Wit, a researcher at MIT.
When Red Dwarf is considered obscure on a site targeting nerds is when I really have to question how many nerds are actually here anymore.
Sorry, teleporters just kill you and then make a copy. A perfect, soul-less copy.
Uhmm, before the nova both of those candidate classes would have not been habitable.
Hot neptunes would have crushing pressure and denaturating temperatures.
Kuiper belt analogs would have been balls of ice.
Life would have a chance to start AFTER the nova. Dont expect anything more complex than germs.