Earth like planets
- SWAT_OP-R8R
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Here is a bit more info: TRAPPIST-1 - Wikipedia
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Too far away to reach it within reasonable times. Even if planets are relative close to each other could mean that each of them has massive tides are waves dispersing the planets surfaces. So even if they are within the habitable region must not mean that life that we know may exists there, or has it easy to survive. Then all of these stars are very close to its center star, much closer than earth is to our sun. So the redation might be very high, although the star over there is less heavy and active than our sun. Which might change by the time being, as its a very young star compared to star lives
And until we could reach it the situation might change^^All in all it would be more likely to populate mars instead of other earth like planets in different solar systems.
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In my eyes radiation and tides are not much an issue.
When planets cause tidal forces to other planets then they are either pretty big or so close that they even disturb the orbits,
Especially with such many planets being so close together on low orbit around the sun the orbiting speed of the planet should be pretty fast. Fast enough for them to frequently light up and cause additional gravitatoinal pulls on each other.
Since they seem to keep a stable orbit instead of getting pushed out of the system i wouldnt be worried that much about tides.
But I could be wrong with that.In terms of radiation I would say that there is alot of guessing.
The star is smaller and colder.
The light spectrum goes bit more into the infrared direction... which isnt bad at all. Long wavelengths dont cause radiation damage.Chlorophyll-f is able to absorb infrared light here on earth. The development of such a photosynthesis on other planets which orbit small stars might be possible.
Plants probably would have a different color on such planets due to the missing light spectrum.The only thing that really is a problem is the distance.
We wont be able to fly there to see if there is life.
But these planets are also not too far away to observe them and catch indicators that tell us if life is actually possible there. New telescopes might allow us to check for bio markers.
If detected such bio markers would be first proof of life outside our solar system and it would render this star system a potential "last-option" candidate in case that something might destroy earth.