What a commotion there will be when we bring in this group of strange creatures, living proof that there are other suns possessing planets; planets which are supporting organic and intelligent life!

A single brilliant star glowed in the centre of the screen: no-one could have told, from this distance, that the Sun had ever possessed planets or that one of them had now been lost.

There were something over two hundred billion stars in our own galaxy, and a hellish lot of them possessed planets of one kind or another.

Each, perhaps, was a cosmos in itself, possessing lifebearing planets and stellar civilizations.

At least one of the Ross stars has been confirmed to possess multiple extrasolar planets as of 2013.

Which of the five stars was chosen remains a question because we could not find out which of them possesses inhabitable planets.

The strange visitor had stated that in 200 years the Ship of Ancestors would he captured by a star which possessed suitable planets.

"Some systems may not possess gas giant planets," I reminded him.

"It is rather unusual for such a hot sun to possess habitable planets, Captain."

Suffice it to say that he found a G-type dwarf star possessing planets - not one planet only, but six .