TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System

Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by debatem1 on Saturday August 12, 2017 @01:24PM (#14998844)

A system that will live for 12 trillion years. A home to seven Earth-sized worlds, rocky planets inside the Goldilocks zone. A hope, at least, for an atmosphere.

What a universe!

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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by fizixer on Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:11PM (#14999091)

Not all seven, but three of them are in the habitable zone.

Still better than our system no doubt.

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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by DougWebb on Saturday August 12, 2017 @03:44PM (#14999590)

We also have three rocky planets in the habitable zone. That's not sufficient to actually make them habitable.

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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by debatem1 on Saturday August 12, 2017 @06:11PM (#15000299)

I dunno, there's pretty strong evidence that one out of the three here is, in fact, habitable.

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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by johngarrison on Saturday August 12, 2017 @07:42PM (#15000689)

Whether it harbors intelligent life, however, is still up for debate.

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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by 0xFFFE on Saturday August 12, 2017 @08:35PM (#15000869)

By the looks of it, we still have a long way to go. :)

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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by Gravityloss on Sunday August 13, 2017 @09:43AM (#15002866)

So far, we're not doing any better than cyanobacteria -Ray Pierrehumbert.

(The start of photosynthesis by cyanobacteria nearly killed all life on the planet.)

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Re:TRAPPIST-1 Is Older Than Our Solar System by jcelerier on Sunday August 13, 2017 @04:27AM (#15002086)

even worse: it's full of aliens!

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