NGL, my first thought was a planet full of beer and cheese.
And nobody talking. Heaven.
The combination of beer and nobody talking doesn't exist.
JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet
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#22Re: JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet
#23NGL, my first thought was a planet full of beer and cheese.
... imagine all that beer at the pub, and no one is joining in...
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#25NGL, my first thought was a planet full of beer and cheese.
If anyone's curious, the name comes from planets around the star having been discovered using the TRAnsiting Planets and PlanetesImals Small Telescope
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#26NGL, my first thought was a planet full of beer and cheese.
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#27Does this change theories around how gaseous clouds eventually formed stars and solar systems?
No, not at this time (and not expected to).
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#28Given how much we know now about how inhospitable red dwarf star systems are, why are we continuing to focus on planets in such systems instead of planets in sun like stars?
I don't get the impression there's currently a bandwidth problem here that needs optimizing. It's also not completely clear how inhospitable to life they truly are. Being the most abundant type of star in the galaxy by far, it makes sense to study them very closely to at least rule out the potential for life.
Regular solar flares could be bad for any lifeforms trying to get a stable civilization together, but on the other hand, all that energy arriving in the atmosphere could trigger some very life-conducive chemistry, similar to how we theorize that lightning was involved in our own primordial soup.
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#29So they are confident it is just a dumb rock, and it's time to move onto another planet. Good but very boring news.
Re: JWST's first spectrum of a TRAPPIST-1 planet
#30So they are confident it is just a dumb rock, and it's time to move onto another planet. Good but very boring news.
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