Earth-sized World Found

Timothy Birdnow

The Web Telescope has discovered an Earth-sized world in close orbit around a red dwarf star.

The planet which orbits the red dwarf LHS475 is designated B.  It is roughly 41 light years away.

According to the rather uninformative article:

There is a good deal of discussion about a possible atmosphere. But given it's distance from a red dwarf (which puts out a heavy solar wind) and it's high temperature (300*C or 572* F.) would probably boil away any atmosphere except a dense carbon dioxide one - which should be visible to the observers, according to the article.

So it is probably an Earth-sized airless rock. But if it has some sort of air and is tidally locked the twilight portion may be cool enough to spend some time on - assuming you don't mind the rather lengthy commute.

One great thing about it though; you won't need your gas stove as it's warm enough to cook without it. That way when Biden bans it you're covered.


At any rate we have nothing that could ever make it there, so don't get your hopes up.

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