Hot Jupiters

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The Kepler telescope’s first five discoveries ain’t hardly habitable, which is its purpose: To find planets we might live on around distant, Sol-like stars. The five (four massing larger than Jupiter and the fifth about the size of Neptune), are high-temperature bodies. Earthlike habitables will come down the road if there are any to be found. Presumably there are, though getting to them may forever be impossible. Unless science fiction’s “hyperspace” turns out to be real and we can use it to travel many light years in a short time. Or “cold sleep” works. The tales of multi-generation spaceship passages to the stars rarely turned out well.

0 responses to “Hot Jupiters

  1. Makes sense that the first discoveries are rather large. Lets’ wait a bit.

  2. Indeed, though I wonder what the point is, considering there’ll not likely be a way to explore them for many generations to come.