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What struck me the most is the fact there is now such thing as Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
Check out the link at the end of the article to a short short by Alastair Reynolds; I am pretty sure this is the shortest amount of time between discovery of an exoplanet, and it turning up in a SF story
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An international team of astronomers, led by Guillem Anglada-Escude from Queen Mary University, reports two new planets orbiting a very old and nearby star to the Sun named Kapteyn's star. One of the newly-discovered planets, Kapteyn b, is potentially habitable as it has the right-size and orbit to support liquid water on its surface. What makes this discovery highly interesting is the peculiar story and age of the star. Kapteyn b is likely over twice the age of Earth and the oldest known potentially habitable planet listed in the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. |
What struck me the most is the fact there is now such thing as Habitable Exoplanets Catalog
Check out the link at the end of the article to a short short by Alastair Reynolds; I am pretty sure this is the shortest amount of time between discovery of an exoplanet, and it turning up in a SF story
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