Awesome. I finally got around to reading my October 2006 version of Astronomy magazine (it was filled with articles about exoplanets) this week and I read this news.
It could have life, but who knows. Dwarf stars tend to flare up a lot, so if this planet doesn't have a thick atmosphere and a nice magnetic field, bye bye life. If it's tidally locked, you're going to have one side hot, the other side coooold.
I can't wait for these new planet finding telescopes to be built.
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