«Long after our own plain yellow sun expands to become a red giant star and turns Earth into a sizzling hot wasteland, there are still regions in our solar system — and other solar systems as well — where life might thrive,» says Kaltenegger.
The sun popped up over the great central plain and splattered orange and yellow light all over the eastern Rockies, like Jackson Pollock with a very large brush, first at the very top, which was still...