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posted by cmn32480 on Monday October 31 2016, @02:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the planets-around-video-games dept.

Computer simulations of the formation of planets orbiting in the habitable zones of low mass stars such as Proxima Centauri by astrophysicists at the University of Bern show that these planets are most likely to be roughly the size of the Earth and to contain large amounts of water.

In August 2016, the announcement of the discovery of a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri stimulated the imagination of experts and the general public. This star is the nearest star to our sun, though it is 10 times less massive and 500 times less luminous. This discovery, together with the discovery in May 2016 of a similar planet orbiting an even lower-mass star (Trappist-1), convinced astronomers that such red dwarfs (as these low-mass stars are called) might be hosts to a large population of Earth-like planets.

Indeed, we already know that red dwarfs do have advanced civilizations.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @07:09PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 31 2016, @07:09PM (#420986)

    Get back in your basement realm, baby.