There you go. 1500 light years out is basically right on top of us.
This again seems to establish our galaxy region alone likely is home to thousands of planets similar to earth. The universe could have hundreds of billions of earth like planets.
After watching Interstellar, I’m a little more pessimistic about space travel. Unless we have time-travelling descendants giving us a wormhole to travel to these places, we’re in for a loooong trip.
Basically right on top of us. If Voyager was headed in that direction it would only take 26.6 million more years to get there.
Btw. I was watching the NASA presser.
They said SETI had surveyed the system, but no radio signals detected...
Then again, we've only used them for 90 years, and will probably move most transmissions to closed circuit media soon.
So there may be only about a century long "window" of transmissions.
The Earth and Sun are younger so in about 6 billion years when our sun begins to die that exoplanet won’t be a viable habitat for earthlings. Secondly, it is estimated that in about 3 billion years the Milky Way will collide with Andromeda galaxy, so again will not prove to be a viable habitat for the human race.