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Just around the corner, how have we not noticed it before?

It had its hair up and was wearing glasses.

Right now a lot of exoplanets we found are big and have tight quick orbits around smaller stars. It makes them easier to see.

As we get better tools and understanding and have more time up observe we'll find more solar systems that resemble our own.

Google says at current standards, it would take 281,000 years to get there. Space is big.

If you drop nukes from the back of a spacecraft and you have a big pusher shield/shock absorber thing on the back you can get to like 1/4 the speed of light.

So, in theory, we could get there in a lifetime.

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Just like how weird a fancy enough telescope we realized that most of the Dots of light out in the cosmos arnt actually stars but entire galaxies. We likely can’t see individual stars that don’t exist in Our galaxy

M-star = the planets are going to lack atmospheres.

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No transits, and their low mass means they produce small radial velocity changes. The star is pretty dim, too.