Feature request: TRAPPIST-1 system must be included :D

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maboleth

maboleth
Please pretty please with a sugar on top! Include this newly found planet system in the ED! I'd LOVE to go there and actually see what is it like! Artist's visualization, whatever - I don't care, just get me there! :D
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
Pretty please can the mods leave ONE of these threads on the dangerous discussion sub?
The other subs aren't getting noticed so if you leave ONE here it will promote discussion, debate and entertainment.
The other ones are on: Off-Topic > Astronomy. That's a dust filled attic.

It's a cool topic with plenty to discuss, but if you keep shuffling them off to the outer reaches - you'll keep getting new threads pop up like a whack-a-mole.
 
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MadDogMurdock

MadDogMurdock
Really! I know it's real life cool and all that but seriously, how many dwarf-star systems with with 7 earth-sized planets have you seen already.

Yes, earth-sized. Earth-like is being bandied about in the loosest sense in the coverage.
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
Uh none?

I don't go out of the bubble much, and IRL we've only been able to detect terrestrial sized planets for a few years.
I was under the impression that they were all capable of liquid water.

Like you would call Mars "Earth-like" under that criteria.
 

DNA-Decay

DNA-Decay
Limoncello Lizard said:
Check Mars out in game. It's been terraformed so that it is indeed Earthlike.
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So I hear, but sadly my my Fed rep is a meat byproduct of my Alliance activities, but soon TM.

In the meantime - this just in from reddit:
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And of course:
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and for those who want to know where it should be in game: [placeholder]

and I read something about stellar forge not being able to add new planets closer than existing stellar forge planets. (source:[placeholder])

The NASA Press release: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/...h-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around

and video:
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Cool quote from today's NASA press release:
Red dwarfs could take their first billion years just to calm down enough to allow any nearby planets to be habitable. And the “habitable zone” around such stars is very close indeed. All seven of the Earth-size planets crowd so close to their star that they complete a single orbit -- their “year” -- in a matter of days, 1.5 days for the nearest planet and 20 days for the farthest.

That kind of proximity means the planets are probably tidally locked, with one face always turned to the star, the same way our moon presents only one face to Earth. And while red dwarfs are “cool” compared to our sun, they would loom large in the sky of a close, tidally locked planet, perhaps baking the sunward face. The far side, meanwhile, could be trapped in an eternal, frozen night.

The right kind of atmosphere could mitigate such effects, transporting heat to the planet’s far side and helping to moderate the climate overall.
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Lovely site: http://www.trappist.one/

Where it is from Sol:
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Cosmo

Cosmo
Seconded. Trappist-1 is already in Space Engine.

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TRAPPIST-1 d is where things get exciting. Being a likely temperate terra with what seems to be liquid water and being "only" 40 light years away from us means this could be a home away from home for humanity.

http://imgur.com/gallery/ZtbBn
 
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