Deep Space Calling

[dakyon]

I've been a little behind on my space blog reading, but I wanted to mention a couple of cool articles. It may now be possible to pinpoint a star about to go super nova a couple of hours in advance of the event by detecting an increased presence of UV photons. That's not a whole lot of time on a cosmic scale, but catching these events in the act

Comments

[ghoststrider]

I read about that. These super-Earths are genuinely interesting. Do you think any of them would be habitable for human life?

[dakyon]

They are too close to the star and thus too hot by our standards.

[ghoststrider]

But what if they were in the Goldilocks ring? What I'm trying to figure out is if humanity could live on an Earth that was twice as big as Sol III, and with a big more mass to boot. Gravity is the first thing to consider; I'm not sure what else would go into the equation.

[dakyon]

Goldilocks ring? Regardless of the size of the planet involved, outside of the habitable zone, the issue becomes the usefulness of water in liquid form, so I'm not sure I follow what you're saying.