Nasa's California Ames Research Centre used data taken from the Kepler space telescope to discover a total of five planets orbiting an unnamed M1 dwarf star, stock image pictured, with one said to be around 1.1 times the size of Earth. This planet sits on the outer edge of its star's habitable zone
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And just how do they ascertain a "habitable zone"? There are many very narrow variables necessary to sustain life here on earth. What is the termperature there? The atmosphere?, the gravity? The level of radiation? The tilt of the planet on its axis? etc. etc.
If NASA has found a new “Earth”, can we (please) send all the Muzzies there?
Stock image? Do we actually have a photo of any star besides our own that shows anything more than a point?
So I wonder if this Earth-like planet in the Goldilocks zone is more like Mars or Venus.
OK, let’s get exploration going, and start with terraforming (if needed) and immediate colonization.
I’ve said, “I want off this planet” so many times in response to the sheer idiocy of lieberals, Communists and Muzzies so many times that someday I’m going to have to follow through on it.
This is the biggest unknown variable (how many planes have conditions capable of sustaining life) in the Drake Equation which calculates how many planets have (or have had) intelligent life.
Goldilocks will have to make her own porridge.
Two words: Tidally. Locked.
Two more: Flare. Star.
Nothing "Goldilocks" about that.
Scientists will never find another Earth in this galaxy, I predict, because they are so exceedingly rare, there might not even be another one in the Local Group. And if they do, we will never be able to go there.
I’m in, when do we leave?
Good news, but how many 100s of light years away is it-I didn’t see that in the article. Even if life is everywhere in the universe, if we can’t travel to, or even communicate with each other in a timely manner, we may as well be alone...
Maybe we should concentrate on putting a base on the moon and building a self-sustaining colony on Mars?
To quote Becker and Fagen... Any world that I’m welcome to, is better than the one I come from.
I seem to remember a twilight zone movie where astronaut’s landed on a planet that looked like earth on the other side of the sun but was never seen because of the same orbit as earth.
What exactly is the goldilocks zone around a dwarf star?
This doesn’t make sense.
Sign at a gym: “Remember, when the aliens arrive, they eat the fat ones first.”
Which obviously makes it a "Class M" planet.
Should be right next to the new Heaven.