Best of both worlds

• Autores: Stephen Baxter
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3104-3106, 2016, págs. 18-19
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Baxter talks about how the hunt for exotic exoplanets can learn a thing or two from science fiction. One sure bet for 2017 is that astronomers will find more of the alien worlds called super-Earths. The existence of these planets, with masses greater than Earth's and less than Neptune's, was largely unanticipated by science. The first found around a star similar to ours was Gliese 876 d, in 2005. They are now thought to be the most common planet type, making the solar system a bit of an oddity. This may explain why science didn't really see them coming. However, science fiction did.