Frozen super-Earth discovered six light-years away

CNN ^ | November 14, 2018 | Ashley Strickland,

[BigEdLB]

A place to exile all the criminal Donk election officials from Broward and Palm Beach counties, Florida

[entropy12]

LOL

[Moonman62]

The red dwarf star itself emits only about 0.4% of our sun’s radiance, so the planet receives about 2% of the intensity that Earth receives from its sun. This is because Barnard’s star is in the class of M dwarf stars, cooler and less massive than our sun. It’s also an old star that predates our own solar system.

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And it will still be shining long after the Sun is burned out.

Red dwarfs stay in their main sequence for trillions of years.

[DannyTN]

Dethaw ideas?

• Needs a moon(s) for tidal movement and additional light.

[treetopsandroofs]

I've read the book.

[Tenacious 1]

Hell, 6 light years may as well be right down the street.

[taxcontrol]

I am of the opinion that it would be easier to heat a cold planet via solar reflectors than to cool a hot planet. Either way, habitation if possible would require some terraforming.

[treetopsandroofs]

Less than 2 parsecs!

New Horizons travels at around 36,373 mph. One light-year is 5.87849981 × 10 12 miles. (That’s 5,878,499,810,000 miles, or nearly 6 trillion miles). So, it would take New Horizons 18,449 years to travel one light year.

Times 6.

[butlerweave]

Is it a great place for Winter Sports ,you know with all our Global Warming

[Snickering Hound]

[Paladin2]

Are the Erf-like Planet’s Dinosaurs frozen too?

[C19fan]

Should name the planet Ultima Thule and check out if Brian Blessed is hanging out there. [Space 1999 Reference]

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

If it still has a magnetic field, molten core and some atmosphere it is possible, just a lot of hard work.

Providing the level of toxins are not too high.

[Buckeye McFrog]

ahh, so if the envirowhackos are right and we end up destroying this one, we can just take another out to thaw...

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[so_real]

The red dwarf star itself emits only about 0.4% of our sun's radiance, so the planet receives about 2% of the intensity that Earth receives from its sun.

Did CNN actually stumble on a "global warming" factoid there with regard to solar activity. They won't even realize it. The volume of koolaid they've consumed blinds them to it.

[litehaus]

Lemme know when the scientists get a short signal indicating the numbers —> 3.1415 etc etc etc

That’ll be the DAY !!!

[Tenacious 1]

New Horizons travels at around 36,373 mph. One light-year is 5.87849981 × 10 12 miles. (That’s 5,878,499,810,000 miles, or nearly 6 trillion miles). So, it would take New Horizons 18,449 years to travel one light year. Times 6.

Exactly! In galactic terms, right down the street. If we left now, we could be there in 110,694 years or so.

[I want the USA back]

It’s not an Earth, and it’s not a Super-Earth either. And forget about going there. In other words, why this article?