Posted on 04/17/2014 5:09:38 PM PDT by Dallas59
While planets have previously been found in the habitable zone, they are all at least 40 percent larger in size than Earth and understanding their makeup is challenging. Kepler-186f is more reminiscent of Earth.
"The discovery of Kepler-186f is a significant step toward finding worlds like our planet Earth," said Paul Hertz, NASA's Astrophysics Division director at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "Future NASA missions, like the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the James Webb Space Telescope, will discover the nearest rocky exoplanets and determine their composition and atmospheric conditions, continuing humankind's quest to find truly Earth-like worlds."
(Excerpt) Read more at nasa.gov ...
This has to be the third first earth-sized planet found today! :-)
Are we going to send them a radio message? :)
how soon can we blast all the lefty loons over there ?
/mark
Rush already is on 47 stations there already
Oh Wow!
Does it look like it could support moslems?
There has to be billions of them out there. Unlike Earth, some may even have intelligent life on them.
This has to be the third first earth-sized planet found today! :-)
I’m just waiting for the first third earth-sized planet
found today,.
They might have a Fifth Third Bank there!
We can buy a fifth to celebrate!
There’s a whole lot more than being “Earth-sized” and “in the habitable zone” before one can even hint that such an exoplanet might have any (much less intelligent) life.
But, hey, if it produce a few dozen articles by fifth-column media hacks and convinces some low-information politicians to jack up NASA’s budget by a hundred megabucks, what the heck.
There’s also a galactic goldilocks zone necessary for Life to arise.
“Size of a planet and its location around a star are only two out of over a dozen factors that determine whether a planet is habitable. They dont consider in these news articles whether the system is within the Galactic Habitable Zone.
“Best, G^2” (Ball State University astronomer Guillermo Gonzalez, co-author of Privileged Planet http://www.sacra-pizza-man.org/privilegedPlanet.html )
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Thanks KoRn, added, not pinged.
Dems are already looking to register the citizens of Keller 78 to have them vote for Hillary in 2016.
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