https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/02/07/a-mirror-earth-right-around-the-corner/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 03:36:22 -0400<![CDATA[The discovery of an Earth-like world is only the first of many steps to finding Earth-like life. For one thing, most of the candidate planets Kepler has seen to date are so close to their stars that they’re much too hot for life. Only three, in fact, appear to be in orbits that make them plausibly habitable. What’s more, Charbonneau cautions that M-dwarfs tend to be much more active than the Sun, with lots of sunspots, flares and potentially lethal ultraviolet radiation.]]>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:10:18 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/02/07/a-mirror-earth-right-around-the-corner-n99943