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What will it look like when we finally reach another star system with habitable planets? Here is one possibility. Over on Concept Art’s Environment of the Week forum, Pixeltuner contributed the ...

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The planetary system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, one of the closest stars to the Sun in the galaxy, has been the subject of several studies aiming to detect the first potentially habitable ...

The orbits of planets in the Gliese 581 system are compared to those of our own solar system. The Gliese 581 star has about 30 percent the mass of our sun, and the outermost planet is closer to its ...