But if you're the type that agrees we don't really know what life is in the broad sense, then I have no idea. |
If you have a metal rich environment, it's not that hard to make rocky planets out of it in a very short time. |
Now we can say that (planets around pulsars) are not uncommon. |
Now we can say that planets around pulsars are probably not that unusual. Maybe planets can form around any kind of star. |
This discovery demonstrates that the planet-creation process is a very robust and a very universal one. |