Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: July 23, 2025, 8:26 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
#57
RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star
(August 26, 2016 at 1:57 am)Bella Morte Wrote: So educate me, AF.

Are there any habitable planets out there we can actually get to in this point in time?

It's not clear where the next habitable planet is - because we don't yet know which ones of the potentially habitable ones have nice atmospheres. This will slowly change now with spectroscopic investigations of planet atmospheres becoming more and more feasible. For proxima b, there are e.g. concrete plans how to do it. Remember that if we'd detect venus from far away, we'd count it as a planet in the habitable zone and wouldn't know that it suffers from runaway greenhouse effect before studying its atmosphere
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

Reply



Messages In This Thread
RE: Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star - by Alex K - August 26, 2016 at 3:09 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  Possible signs of life found in the atmosphere of Venus zebo-the-fat 11 2565 September 14, 2020 at 8:22 pm
Last Post: The Grand Nudger
  Newborn planet pictured for first time zebo-the-fat 15 3313 July 3, 2018 at 9:11 pm
Last Post: brewer
  Black hole eats a star Silver 19 4903 June 20, 2018 at 12:06 pm
Last Post: Joods
  So, What planet/moon is this ? vorlon13 42 8461 November 26, 2017 at 9:35 am
Last Post: vorlon13
  We have kittens in orbit around Saturn. Gawdzilla Sama 8 1354 September 27, 2017 at 8:09 pm
Last Post: chimp3
  Organic Molecules Found 400 Light Years From Earth Minimalist 364 81879 August 21, 2017 at 4:35 pm
Last Post: Amarok
  How would you name Planet Nine? Fake Messiah 55 19986 July 19, 2017 at 10:21 am
Last Post: Astonished
  The Amazing Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada TubbyTubby 4 2054 May 14, 2017 at 4:31 pm
Last Post: The Valkyrie
  Earliest evidence of life on Earth 'found' Minimalist 6 2227 March 1, 2017 at 11:30 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  New evidence points toward Ninth Planet in the solar system Heat 57 13528 January 24, 2016 at 7:33 pm
Last Post: Cyberman



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)