Scientists find a potentially habitable Earth-like planet

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It is a bit bigger and somewhat colder, but a planet circling a star 500 light-years away is otherwise the closest match of our home world yet discovered, astronomers announced on Thursday.

The planet, known as Kepler 186f, named after NASA’s Kepler planet-finding misison, which found it, has a diameter of 8,700 miles, 10 percent wider than Earth, and its orbit lies within the “Goldilocks zone” of its star, Kepler 186 — not too hot, not too cold, where temperatures could allow for liquid water to flow at the surface, making it potentially hospitable for life.

“It’s Earth size,” said Elisa V. Quintana of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. “It’s in the habitable zone. So we now know these planets do exist.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/18/s...d&bicmst=1388552400000&bicmet=1420088400000&_

But they can't find an airplane on this planet. :lol2:
 
BobbyFord said:
Only if they let me bring my toys and only if Brian France decides to have at least one race there per year. :)
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All that land and water would be useless without the toys... Assuming it's not the same crowded ****hole this place is. :p
 
Who knows? Maybe there's people there wondering the same things about our planet...
 
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