Blasts Complacency: Dwarf Star and Earth-Sized Planets

blasts complacency: For centuries, we humans have wondered if there were living creatures near one of those sparkling stars we see on a clear night, according to The Waterloo Record. And for just as long, we have wondered if instead we are alone, if our planet is a cosmic aberration where life arose in a way never to be replicated in the rest of a dead, or at best non-living, universe. But it's probably in everyone's best interest that, for the time being at least, we have no way of getting there. But like a bolt of lightening that blasts complacency, there came last week's tantalizing news that a team of international astronomers had discovered a dim, red dwarf star being orbited by seven Earth-sized planets, three of which may hold life. To be sure, the distance is formidable and out of reach for any spaceship being built today. That this solar system named TRAPPIST-1 lies in the constellation Aquarius a mere 39 million light years away made the discovery even more breathtaking. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.