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tjmc
on Dec 15, 2022
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Two temperate Earth-mass planets orbiting the near...
For values of "nearby" approximately equal to 149,346,794,944,180 kms.
sidlls
on Dec 15, 2022
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It’s not even a rounding error at the scale of our own galaxy (not joking: the measurement error for the size of the galaxy is something like +/-3kLY). May as well be next door. 15 LY is
very
close.
nine_k
on Dec 15, 2022
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Were it a larger star prone to flares, that would even be
dangerously
close for Earths life.
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