Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star

Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by michaelerule on Friday February 11, 2022 @06:59AM (#30300370)

Is the 6 years measured in the time-frame of a passenger on the spacecraft, or as observed from Earth?

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by Udo on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:07AM (#30300430)

At 0.9c the relativistic time dilation is such that 2.3 days on Earth pass for every day shipboard time, meaning the crew would experience less than 4 years of travel in total: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cship/timedial.html

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Re:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star by raxxorrax on Friday February 11, 2022 @07:10AM (#30300454)

Since we aren't too fast yet, it would basically be the same.

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