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    Kepler 22B

    DateTuesday, December 6, 2011 at 7:20PM

    Awesome. Absolutely awesome. Now find one closer!!!

    NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets.

    The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth. Scientists don't yet know if Kepler-22b has a predominantly rocky, gaseous or liquid composition, but its discovery is a step closer to finding Earth-like planets.

    and from the second article

    US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens

     

    Read more about it HERE and also HERE

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    I think NASA just found out that Kepler is gaseous. So humans can't live in it.

    - Dylan

    December 12, 2011 | Unregistered CommenterBrochure Printing

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