04-25-2007, 04:03 AM
Don't go getting your hopes up YET...
It's 20.5 light years away... or about 150 years at the most optomistic possible speed that we can get ANYTHING moving at right now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_o...e_planet_8
It seems that this world is the right distance from the star Gliese 581 to have liquid water on it.. which is a HUGE step towards the POSSIBILITY of life.
The world has roughly 1.6 times earths gravity, orbits it's star in 13 days (it's star is a red dwarf)... the star appears 20 times LARGER than our moon in it's sky.
Now.. if my *&^#$ internet connection will cooperate, I'm gonna go do some more reading...
It's 20.5 light years away... or about 150 years at the most optomistic possible speed that we can get ANYTHING moving at right now.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070425/ap_o...e_planet_8
It seems that this world is the right distance from the star Gliese 581 to have liquid water on it.. which is a HUGE step towards the POSSIBILITY of life.
The world has roughly 1.6 times earths gravity, orbits it's star in 13 days (it's star is a red dwarf)... the star appears 20 times LARGER than our moon in it's sky.
Now.. if my *&^#$ internet connection will cooperate, I'm gonna go do some more reading...