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Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
With a star shield (Google it) to block out light from the parent star, the James Webb telescope should be adequate to get a spectroscopic reading of the atmosphere - if it has one, of course. A professor at MIT (Sara Seager) has been active trying to drum up support for a star shield and large telescope. I recall her saying the Webb would be good for any close-by planets. Can't get any closer than this one.

I'm just a layman but I don't have high hopes for this one at all. The flare activity of the parent star is a deal-breaker, I fear. It would never give an atmosphere a chance to even develop - never mind maintain itself. But who knows? It's still exciting news. Now we know that two stars within 5 light years of each other both have earth-sized planets in the Goldilocks zone. That has pretty wild implications.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Albert Einstein
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RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - by AFTT47 - August 24, 2016 at 10:14 pm

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