http://www.slashgear.com/star-eruption-likely-caused-distant-planets-atmosphere-to-evaporate-29236441/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/star-eruption-likely-caused-distant-planets-atmosphere-to-evaporate-29236441/#comment-220734 rfichoke Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:27:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=236441#comment-220734 It was. But then they drove too many SUVs and built too many houses. That’s what caused this.

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/star-eruption-likely-caused-distant-planets-atmosphere-to-evaporate-29236441/#comment-220731 rauloid Sun, 01 Jul 2012 15:13:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=236441#comment-220731 as opposed to right before that happened, when it was teeming with life LOL

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/star-eruption-likely-caused-distant-planets-atmosphere-to-evaporate-29236441/#comment-220307 DouglasKrates79 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=236441#comment-220307 Well I guess I won’t be getting a vacation home there…

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/star-eruption-likely-caused-distant-planets-atmosphere-to-evaporate-29236441/#comment-220252 Carpathia Fri, 29 Jun 2012 15:40:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=236441#comment-220252 The interesting thing that a lot of people forget about is that this event happend many years in the past. This star is 63 light years away, which means it takes 63 years for the light to reach the telescope. So, effectively what we’re seeing is something that happened 63 years ago. By now, that planet is probably completely dead.

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