MERGED: All About Extra-Solar Planets: News, Updates and Related Topics

[locust101]

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If you have ever hoped to give up your ho-hum life on Earth and start a fresh one on a distant planet, you might be closer than you think. Astronomers have just announced the discovery of a planet that’s more similar to Earth than any discovered before, and there’s a good chance humans could survive there. What’s even more fascinating is the assertion of one scientist that there is almost certainly life on Gliese 581g already. Dr. Steven Vogt, the UC Santa Cruz astronomy professor who led the study of the exoplanet, says that life will flourish wherever it can, and it definitely can on the newly-discovered planet.




Gliese 581g, situated a mere 20 light years away from Earth, sits in the “Goldilocks Zone” of its star: the very small zone where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold to make the existence of life (as we know it) impossible. The planet has an atmosphere, gravity and temperatures that are cold, but not so cold as to make it uninhabitable.

The discovery is significant, in part, because finding an Earth-like planet so quickly and so close to home indicates that they aren’t at all uncommon. Five other planets have been found orbiting in the Gliese 581 system, which is the highest number found in a system other than our own, but the others lie outside of the “Goldilocks Zone” where conditions for life are perfect. Of course, we don’t have a hope of reaching and colonizing the newly-discovered world until our space travel technology improves significantly…so don’t put your Earth condo up for sale just yet.

[locust101]

can we even travel 20 lightyears through space?? cant wait for updates on this great find

[arf2]

lol even so d japun possible if walay oxygen present ana na planet

[locust101]

lagi bro but to think lang na possible nga life bearing planet sya ehehe think of the find nlng eehehe

[Moongoddess28]

pila pd kaha plete sah? hihiihihih

[brandnewbien]

wa ta kabaw basin naka larga na ang 1st trip padong didto

[gabs]

pwede oi man tingale makatravel didto. Automate ang flight og navigation padung didto, nya preserve ang taw nga ganahan moadto ngadto hehe!

nya inig landing automatic momata ang sakay hehe!

Bad: Dili ka kalanding kay UFO man ka para nila hehe!
Worst: Di kaabot didto hehe!

[moi_moi]

asa man ka nangahoy ani dude?hehe resulta sa ka boring sa ofis y gihimo cge lang ug browse.hahaha

[dakoglamoy]

UPDATE!!!!!!

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[moy1moy1]

lol even so d japun possible if walay oxygen present ana na planet

we dont thrive at all kung oxygen ra atong saligan.. we need nitrogen mixed with our day2day air.. and carbon for our food (yes, most of our food and resources are carbon base)

correct me if im wrong..

pwede oi man tingale makatravel didto. Automate ang flight og navigation padung didto, nya preserve ang taw nga ganahan moadto ngadto hehe!

nya inig landing automatic momata ang sakay hehe!

Bad: Dili ka kalanding kay UFO man ka para nila hehe! depende kong naay sentient life-form ang present dd2 (a being with intellegince comparable to humans of an early civilization)
Worst: Di kaabot didto hehe! Sa kadaghan sa engineers sa atoa, its not impossible that they could find a way.

True problem?

Buhi pa kaha ta ana kung this things will happen.
besides, its an expensive travel..