(December 5, 2011 at 7:31 pm)popeyespappy Wrote: And only 600 light years away. If we leave now we should be able to get there in about 10 million years.
We might get spectralscopic readings of it to determine surface and atmosphere composition, and surface temperature range in the quite near future. I imagine within a few decade we might be able to able to image gross features of its surface directly.