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Super-Earths Could Be More ‘Superhabitable’ Than Planets Like Ours

_{Kepler-62f, an exoplanet that is about 40% larger than Earth. It’s located about 1,200 light-years from our solar system in the constellation Lyra. Image: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech}

Alien planets that are slightly bigger than Earth could be more life-friendly than exoplanets closer to our own size, a new study implies. These so-called “super-Earths” that are about two to three times that of our own planet could be “superhabitable” — implying that our own planet is a rare bird indeed when it comes to being good for life.

Bigger rocky planets would have a host of advantages, argue McMaster University’s Rene Heller and Weber State University’s John Armstrong in a paper recently published in Astrobiology. Among them: These worlds would have tectonic activity that takes longer to happen, meaning that the conditions would be more stable for life. Also, a bigger mass implies it’s easier to hang on to a thick atmosphere and to have “enhanced magnetic shielding” to hold a planet’s own against solar flares.

“Our argumentation can be understood as a refutation of the Rare Earth hypothesis. Ward and Brownlee (2000) claimed that the emergence of life required an extremely unlikely interplay of conditions on Earth, and they concluded that complex life would be a very unlikely phenomenon in the Universe,” stated the authors in their paper “Superhabitable Worlds.”

“While we agree that the occurrence of another truly Earth-like planet is trivially impossible, we hold that this argument does not constrain the emergence of other inhabited planets. We argue here in the opposite direction and claim that Earth could turn out to be a marginally habitable world. In our view, a variety of processes exists that can make environmental conditions on a planet or moon more benign to life than is the case on Earth.”

As a start, the scientists suggest looking at the Alpha Centauri system, where researchers in 2012 discovered a planet close to Earth’s size that is likely not habitable because it orbits so close to its sun.

The star system, however, is about the right age and has low enough radiation to allow life to occur on a planet or moon that “evolved similarly as it did on Earth”, providing the planet or moon “had the chance to collect water from comets and planetesimals beyond the snowline.” Further, it’s just four light-years from Earth, making it a good target for telescopic observations.

Source | The Paper

Further reading:

• Super-Earth (Wikipedia)
• ‘Waterworld’ super planet confirmed
• Hubble Telescope Reveals Super-Planets Covered in Alien Clouds
• What Is A Super Earth?
• Super-Earth Planets May Have Watery Earthlike Climates

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hair’s doin this funky ass wavy thing today
sup with you

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MINDBLOWN

That

Right there

Is every single book you’ve ever read

That’s it.  This is my next tattoo.

I’m so mad that that squiggly line isn’t needed.

yoooooo i was so disappointed. i had hopes for the squiggly line

the squiggly line was in the “one”

Y'all need to chill your dumb asses did u know you can also make every letter of the alphabet by taking bites out of different parts of a pretzel? We learned that in kindergarten calm the fuck down

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does a qualified white person want to explain to me what the fuck this means?????????????

You see white people hibernate in square formation to protect their crops for winter.

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Goal is to meet a boy that says this

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Friendly reminder that you can buy sweets called “Ärsche mit Ohren” in germany, which is literally translated with “asses with ears”

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