Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars — mentioned by techdragon

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 03:10:42 GMT

Well given how much we have learned about exoplanets, I'd say that at least one number of the assumptions are rather moot. The "how many stars even have planets" can be assumed to be basically "all of them" statistically speaking. ( https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10684 ) and while we can't yet say much about the specifics of their composition (a spectroscopy of the light passing through earth sized exoplanet atmospheres is at the cutting edge of research, with people mostly still working on new instruments, and trying to find lucky candidates where we can get any reading at all with…

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Prevalence of Earth-size planets orbiting Sun-like stars — mentioned by techdragon