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Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by pantalaimon on Monday January 09, 2023 @05:57AM (#34309009)
> So actually-habitable planets must be much, much rarer, among those announced, than astronomy departments' PR crew would have us think

That’s not the conclusion you can draw from that.

With the methods we currently have we can only really spot exoplanets if they are very close to their star and also reasonably big in relation to the star.

That means super-earths close to red dwarfs.

There are very likely many more types of planets, they are just much harder to see from afar.

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Re:Wolf 1069B: Earth-mass planet in the habitable zone of a ... by moloch-hai on Monday January 09, 2023 @01:50PM (#34314314)
As you quoted yourself, "among those announced". Life arose here, on a planet not among those announced, or like them.
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