They just got closer, with the announcement Dec. 5 of a planet found by NASA's Kepler space telescope to lie in the habitable zone around its star where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist.
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Alien Worlds
According to Space.com, astronomers have discovered more than 700 alien planets beyond the solar system, and the count is rising all the time. Some are large and hot, and others are smaller and cooler, but scientists are still on the lookout for an Earth twin.
They just got closer, with the announcement Dec. 5 of a planet found by NASA's Kepler space telescope to lie in the habitable zone around its star where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist.
They just got closer, with the announcement Dec. 5 of a planet found by NASA's Kepler space telescope to lie in the habitable zone around its star where liquid water, and perhaps life, could exist.
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Pretty cool. They gotta find one quick before the end of 2012, or realistically, before we ruin this planet of its' natural resources and can no longer live here. Sad but true. By the time we all finally know we have to change and are willing to to save ourselves and this planet, I feel it will be too late. Hopefully not but we need that back up planet just in case, and to send up a ship to notify the Vulcans so we can learn how to achieve inter-space travel. Gotta love Star Trek.
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