Description
On 25 April 2007, the news about the `most-Earth-like-to-date
planet' (MELTDP) hit the front page of newspapers around the globe.
These fantastic findings filled radio listeners and television viewers
alike with wonder: does this new world also host Life? Could humans live
there?
Over night, the MELTDP's parent star, the red dwarf Gliese 581, had become a super-star. However, the somewhat dry and anonymous id `Gl 581' of this new-baked world-wide celebrity was picked up by the trained eye of an astronomer who exclaimed: `Hey, this is HO Librae! That is, this means...".
The red dwarf HO Lib is essentially as old as the Sun. This piece of evidence too made the astronomer exclaim: `Hey, HO Librae is 4.3 billion years old! That is, this means...".
Want to know what it all means? Come and find out at the Hot Topic colloquium.
Over night, the MELTDP's parent star, the red dwarf Gliese 581, had become a super-star. However, the somewhat dry and anonymous id `Gl 581' of this new-baked world-wide celebrity was picked up by the trained eye of an astronomer who exclaimed: `Hey, this is HO Librae! That is, this means...".
The red dwarf HO Lib is essentially as old as the Sun. This piece of evidence too made the astronomer exclaim: `Hey, HO Librae is 4.3 billion years old! That is, this means...".
Want to know what it all means? Come and find out at the Hot Topic colloquium.