Monday, February 13, 2017

Dwarf star"s atmosphere holds the ingredients for life

Importantly, that victim planet likely resembled one of the objects in the Kuiper belt, the cloud of water-rich comets and small planets at the outer edge of our own Solar System. That supports beliefs that there are Kuiper belt-like environments in other star systems, and that happy accidents like WD 1425+540’s might not be all that rare. While that’s far from a guarantee of life, it raises hope that humanity will find life elsewhere.

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