Lynette Cook, Space.com
This artist's conception shows the inner four planets of the Gliese 581 system and their host star, a red dwarf star only 20 light years away from Earth. The large planet in the foreground is the newly discovered GJ 581g, which has a 37-day orbit right in the middle of the star's habitable zone and is only three to four times the mass of Earth, with a diameter 1.2 to 1.4 times that of Earth.
An Earth-size planet has been spotted orbiting a nearby star at a distance that would makes it not too hot and not too cold — comfortable enough for life to exist, researchers announced today (Sept. 29).
If confirmed, the exoplanet, named Gliese 581g, would be the first Earth-like world found residing in a star's habitable zone — a region where a planet's temperature could sustain liquid water on its surface.
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9 comments:
I'm moving tomorrow! Calling Virgin and booking the flight.
Mmmm , maybe someone found heaven!
Sounds like just the right size!
Beam me up Scotty there is no intelligent life down here.
I'll bet their planet is saying right now: OMG ! The dreadful earthlings have found us!
great, lets go. it'll be millions of years before we have to worry about the EPA again ...
great, lets go. and this time, i'll pick my own damn cotton !
I need off this greedy planet!
2:34, HA HA. This black man found that hilarious!
Who says we can't all get along after all?
Can we send Obama and his cronies there?
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