Possible Planets
As one of the nearest Sun-like stars, Epsilon Eridani has been the target of many attempts to search for planetary companions. However, its chromospheric activity and variability means that finding planets with the radial velocity method is difficult, because the stellar activity may create signals that mimic the presence of planets. Attempts at direct imaging of potential exoplanets have proven unsuccessful to date. Infrared observation has shown there are no bodies of three or more Jupiter masses in this system.
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“Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wave-length of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)
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Was there a father?
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and let our childhood out,
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