Website review: Earth-like planet found outside sol...
sargt000 discovered this in Science/Tech
•14 reviews since Apr 24, 2007
science, astronomy, planetology
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sargt000 discovered 15 months ago
hooray! once we completely fuck ours up, we can start from scratch.
- lunaticprophet rated 14 months ago
- From the page: "Astronomers in Europe have discovered the most Earth-like planet to date outside our solar system, one they say could potentially hold liquid water, a necessary ingredient to support life. Scientists with the European Southern Observatory say the planet, discovered orbiting a red dwarf star 20.5 light years away, is the smallest of those found outside our solar system. The planet has a diameter 50 per cent larger than Earth's and a mass five times as much as our planet. It orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 581 in 13 days at a distance 14 times closer than Earth's orbit to the sun."
- sweetmelissa2005 rated 15 months ago
- Very exciting news!!
- Pabs82 rated 15 months ago
- The way things are going, we might have to move there.
- strawb3rie rated 15 months ago
- But how do you know if its ahead or behind or a continual cycle? Or if it hasn't yet or won't ever find the random sequence of DNA/RNA/GOD that can kickstart life...
- Foggy1 rated 15 months ago
- This is where I want to go.From the page: Astronomers in Europe have discovered the most Earth-like planet to date outside our solar system, one they say could potentially hold liquid water, a necessary ingredient to support life. Scientists with the European Southern Observatory say the planet, discovered orbiting a red dwarf star 20.5 light years away, is the smallest of those found outside our solar system. The planet has a diameter 50 per cent larger than Earth's and a mass five times as much as our planet. It orbits the red dwarf star Gliese 581 in 13 days at a distance 14 times closer than Earth's orbit to the sun. But because red dwarf stars are smaller and produce less heat than our sun, the planet's close proximity puts it potentially within the temperature range that might support life, the astronomers said in a paper submitted as a letter to the editor in an upcoming issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics. "We have estimated that the mean temperature of this super-Earth lies between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius, and water would thus be liquid," explained Stephane Udry, who is from the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland and the lead author of the paper reporting the result. "Moreover, its radius should be only 1.5 times the Earth's radius, and models predict that the planet should be either rocky -- like our Earth -- or covered with oceans," he said in the statement.
- Herald rated 15 months ago
- "Astronomers in Europe have discovered the most Earth-like planet to date outside our solar system, one they say could potentially hold liquid water, a necessary ingredient to support life."
- j4m3sb0nd rated 15 months ago
- I am reaching infinity in terms of how many times I've received this article with stumbleupon now. That said, it is a fine discovery, although I've noticed some people are falling from rational thought about it with comments like "LETZ MIGRATE LULZ", haha.
- aRTy-nz rated 15 months ago
- "Earth-like planet found outside solar system Last Updated: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 | 7:00 PM ET CBC News Astronomers in Europe have discovered the most Earth-like planet to date outside our solar system, one they say could potentially hold liquid water, a necessary ingredient to support life. Scientists with the European Southern Observatory say the planet, discovered orbiting a red dwarf star 20.5 light years away, is the smallest of those found outside our solar system."
- Uru rated 15 months ago
- They don't have a clue if it's earth-like or not. This is poor reporting and misleading.
- raymongrel rated 15 months ago
- Exciting news - depressing thing is the first chance we may even be able to just LOOK at it is in 2020 with the possible launch of this massive new NASA telescope. I wish astronomy would move a bit faster... Interestingly a year lasts one of our Earthling fortnights. Not quite four seasons in one day, but not far off. Wonder how long a day lasts? Would depend on how fast it spins I suppose.
