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We're finding exoplanets at an incredible rate. See NASA's Exoplanet Archive (https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.e

We're finding exoplanets at an incredible rate. See NASA's Exoplanet Archive (https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/ https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/) for the current 4164 known exoplanets. Related: The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile just confirmed the existence of Proxima Centauri b, a roughly Earth-sized exoplanet in Proxima Centauri’s habitable zone—the closest star to Earth, just 4 light-years away! https://www.universetoday.com/146262/powerful-telescope-confirms-theres-an-earth-sized-world-orbiting-proxima-centauri/ https://www.universetoday.com/146262/powerful-telescope-conf... Oh, and here's this topic's prerequisite xkcd: https://xkcd.com/786/ https://xkcd.com/786/ (We write about exoplanets really frequently on https://orbitalindex.com https://orbitalindex.com)

forgotpwd16 6y ago
Checking your site it seems there is an article weekly for two years now. That's amazing. Definitely recommend for anyone interested in the "space" field.
snapetom 6y ago
Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but Proxima Centauri B is likely not habitable due to its star blowing away its atmosphere. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerful-visible.html https://phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerfu...
- nieve 6y ago
  This was mentioned in the original article.
icey 6y ago
I can't wait for the James Webb Space Telescope to launch -- really excited to see what we've been blind to so far. Sadly, it's been delayed again due to COVID-19 (it was most recently scheduled for March of next year), but _whenever_ it launches it's sure to bring us eye-popping new images of space.
_Microft 6y ago
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forgotpwd16 6y ago

Checking your site it seems there is an article weekly for two years now. That's amazing. Definitely recommend for anyone interested in the "space" field.

snapetom 6y ago

Hate to be a Debbie Downer, but Proxima Centauri B is likely not habitable due to its star blowing away its atmosphere. https://phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerful-visible.html https://phys.org/news/2018-04-proxima-centauri-flare-powerfu...

nieve 6y ago
This was mentioned in the original article.

icey 6y ago

I can't wait for the James Webb Space Telescope to launch -- really excited to see what we've been blind to so far. Sadly, it's been delayed again due to COVID-19 (it was most recently scheduled for March of next year), but _whenever_ it launches it's sure to bring us eye-popping new images of space.

_Microft 6y ago

Bug report for https://orbitalindex.com/ https://orbitalindex.com/ : In desktop Firefox 77.0.1, the page can be scrolled (i.e. the scrollbar is moving) for pages without anything happening. It took me a moment to notice that a content section can be pulled in from the right side. Disabling sanity-saving addons (ad-/tracking blockers) did not make a difference.