Would be interesting to see if they can do the same with Epsilon Eridani, it's supposedly more likely to have habitable planets.
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One amazing thing we discovered in the last ~20 years is just how common planets are.
I still remember the time when it wasn't taken as a fact that most stars will have planets.
“These planets were always going to be hostile, because they’re really close to their star” said Byrne, “Even the outermost planet orbits ten times closer than Mercury orbits the Sun. When you’re that close to your star, and have such little gravity, your atmosphere just gets blown off.”
The researchers say that the planets could have held on to their atmospheres for at most two billion years – much shorter than the system’s 10-billion-year age. Their results are reported in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Being so close to the star has another consequence for the planets: the researchers found that the planets are all tidally locked. In the same way that the Moon only shows one face to the Earth, the Barnard’s Star planets each only show one face to their star. As a result, each planet has one hemisphere locked in eternal daylight; the other, eternal night.
The fire beings of venus think earth is 'uninhabitable', the meat sacks of earth think venus is 'uninhabitable'.
We are getting nowhere fast.