On: Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star

[hanoz]

To give a sense of the scales involved - if the sun were an orange and the earth a grain of sand 6 meters away, this star would be a pea about 5000km away.

There would only be another 34 stars / fruit-and-veg within this 10000km wide sphere. It's pretty empty out there!

[booleandilemma → hanoz]

I’m amazed that the specks on the grain of sand can even be aware of the pea that’s 5000km away in the first place.