ALL THESE PLANETS ARE CLOSER TO THEIR STAR THAN MERCURY IS TO OURS.....................SEE BOTTOM PIC...............
EXOPLANET PING!...................
OOOOOOR, they could not.
Of course water could be common. Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe and oxygen is the third most common element in the universe so who could be stupid enough to think that it is rare anywhere but here. Water will be water here, on Jupiter’s moons, in comets, so by extrapolation how far do you have to go before water isn’t there anymore? And since carbon is the fourth most common element in the universe, it stands to reason that carbon dioxide and methane will be very common as well.
Planet Earth has earthlings.
Planet Mars would have martians.
Planet e has......eepers?
It says they’re tidally locked such that you have a permanent hot side and a permanent cold side. But you also have permanent shadow zones. Where you could grow barley. And hops. Yes. This could be the mythical Planet Of Beer.
Trappist 1 is an ultra cool red dwarf of about 0.09 solar masses, just a bit over the minimum for a proton-proton reaction, and a surface temperature of about 2500K.
Since this is a red dwarf, it can have the tendency to flare frequently. Not being a physicist or cosmologist (I’m just an engineer), I suspect that low mass stars that are fully convective may also tend to do a good amount of flaring.
I figured that when I saw how short their orbital periods were in the other chart.
Wouldn’t that tidal locking create a massive thermal differential, and result in hurricane winds?
Sure a lot of assumptions in this article.