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Second Earth Found

I don't know about you, but this is pretty exciting news for me, especially observing the artist's impression. These things help me to see just how 'small' we are in a very large universe.:

"This is the smallest extrasolar planet yet detected and the first of a new class of rocky terrestrial planets," Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution in Washington said in a statement. "It's like Earth's bigger cousin."

Geoffrey Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, added: "Over 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosophers Aristotle and Epicurus argued about whether there were other Earth-like planets. Now, for the first time, we have evidence for a rocky planet around a normal star."
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space...se-planet_x.htm

Found Earth Second

Pretty exciting news ... I just got 3 questions:
1. can we get there?
2. how fast?
3. will we do the same thing to it like we did with our own earth - destroy it?

I know the answer only to the last one ...

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I am sure we could, but I think we will melt on our way. The planet is way too hot for any kind of life to survive there ( 200 to 400 degrees celcius on the surface alone).

I think we are around 15 light years from that planet.

Found Earth Second

Thanks for the answers LDS.

The first 2 questions were kinda rhetorical and I tried to put the accent on the last one.

Anyway, thanks again!

Found Earth Second

15 Light years? No way! There is no way that the humans can get to the planet, it is too far and way too hot. Anyway does that planet orbits a sun?

Second Earth Found

There's a special project, already active since some years ago, that has the ambition of finding earth-like planets in other solar systems. Analyzing the small anomalies caused by the presence of an orbiting planet on it's star, the scientists were already able to classify hundreds of worlds orbiting in the so called "Life zone": an average distance similar to that of our planet from the Sun. The problem is that, at the moment, our instruments can only detect relatively large planets that are not so likely to be suitable for life as we know it (most are small gas giants).