06-12-11
Have we found another planet Earth?
About 600 light-years from Earth, Kepler 22-b is not close to home, it doesn’t have a very romantic name and while scientists are not yet sure if it is made mostly of rock, gas or liquid, it does have similarities to our own – making it the latest best potential for a life sustaining planet.
On Monday NASA said the Kepler space telescope has confirmed its first-ever planet in a habitable zone outside our solar system. Kepler-22b, initially glimpsed in 2009, is the first the US space agency has been able to confirm.
16:50 Gepost door Wally in ENGLISH, Ter bezinning | Permalink | Commentaren (0) | Email dit | Tags: nasa, planet, kepler 22-b, telescope, solar system, star, guy conolmagno, astronomer, planetary scientist, vatican observatory | 
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