General / Off-Topic BREAKING: New potentially habitable exoplanet found around Teegarden's star

[alfa015]

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet around Teegarden's Star.

Teegarden is an old red dwarf star 12 light-years away in the Aries constellation.

The exoplanet found, called Teegarden b, has a minimum mass almost identical to Earth.

It orbits within the star's habitable zone.

And it has a 60% chance of having a temperate surface environment.

Surface temperature should be closer to 28°C assuming a similar terrestrial atmosphere.

Teegarden b is the exoplanet with the highest Earth Similarity Index discovered so far: 95%.

This means that it has the closest mass and insolation to terrestrial values.

Source: youtube.com/watch?v=eNGXerXGnjo

 

[Patrick_68000]

Excellent ! Still a potential planet to be destroyed by the humanity.

 

[shreddog]

M type star...
Chances for life are slim.

 

[shreddog]

 

[Para Handy]

Broken News - there are two planets:

New Earth-like exoplanets discovered around red dwarf Teegarden star

An international team led by the University of Göttingen (Germany) with participation by researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) have discovered, using the CARMENES high-resolution spectrograph at the Calar Alto Observatory (Almería) two new planets like the Earth around...

phys.org

 

[Martin Afonso]

https://danielmarin.naukas.com/2019...mente-habitables-de-la-estrella-de-teegarden/

 

[Manticore]

Thanks for posting....

 

[lysan]

Excellent ! Still a potential planet to be destroyed by the humanity.

But there are so many....well need to work harder then!

 

[Vasco Sapien]

M type star...
Chances for life are slim.

But red dwarfs are very stable and long lived...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_red_dwarf_systems

 

[Chris Simon]

Umm.. I haven't watched the video, yet and I kind of like this guy, but that title is just idiotic.
How would atmosphere evaporate? Potential loss of atmosphere (which is, let's face it, mostly gas) has nothing to do with temperature.
It can be stripped by solar wind or not form at all, but it doesn't "evaporate"

 

[Cmdr. Numa]

But red dwarfs are very stable and long lived...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitability_of_red_dwarf_systems

And the habitable zone is so close to the star, that each and all planets are probably tidally locked, with the bright side too hot for life and the dark side too cold.

 

[Vasco Sapien]

And the habitable zone is so close to the star, that each and all planets are probably tidally locked, with the bright side too hot for life and the dark side too cold.

Yes its called an Eyeball Earth and many have speculated a habitable zone between the two extremes.
Given enough time life could adapt into the extreme zones. (to some degree).

 

[EISENHORN01]

So they’ve found a planet with rampant global warming?

 

[Patrick_68000]

But there are so many....well need to work harder then!

Let's start by finishing off our Earth before aiming at other planets.

 

[lysan]

Let's start by finishing off our Earth before aiming at other planets.

I can multitask...

 

[Patrick_68000]

I can multitask...

Diabolical !

 

[starman]

Titan has frozen water

https://www.space.com/15257-titan-saturn-largest-moon-facts-discovery-sdcmp.html

conditions will change at somepoint when sun expands..

 

[metatheurgist]

So they’ve found a planet with rampant global warming?

Don't be ridiculous, we know that doesn't exist.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Titan has frozen water

https://www.space.com/15257-titan-saturn-largest-moon-facts-discovery-sdcmp.html

conditions will change at somepoint when sun expands..

Or before if the humans come to do their usual activities.