A team of astonomers announced the discovery of the most "Earth-like" planet yet found outside the solar system, revolving around a star named Gliese 876, just around the interstellar corner, 15 light years away in the direction of the constellation Aquarius. About seven-and-a-half times as massive as Earth, with about twice the radius, it may be the first rocky planet ever found orbiting a normal star not much different from our Sun.…
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26 - Brooke Lee
Noooo, it's my planet get your own!
27 - Eric Berlin
I think it would merely be "Kirsten"
28 - Brooke Lee
Nevermind, after reading this lil statement I believe it's otherwise occupied:
Jackson himself remained out of sight after being found not guilty on charges he molested a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland ranch. But his Web site triumphantly ranked his acquittal alongside the birth of Martin Luther King Jr., the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of Nelson Mandela.
29 - Bennett
Brooke, we have a mispost... What's up with MT?
30 - Bennett
Oh, I get it. Much too fast for me Brooke. The Duke would be proud!
31 - Victor Plenty
A few years ago we learned ours was not the only star in the universe to have large gas giant planets. Now we learn ours is not the only star in the universe to have small rocky planets.
Perhaps these findings are not so shocking as the discovery, a few centuries ago, that the entire universe does not revolve around our own small rocky planet.
But their nature is the same.
In the future our descendants will marvel at how surprised we were to learn of these things.
32 - Stiffmeister
We really need a 100m wide space interferometer with at least 4 telescopes in laser guided formation. That would surely show alien earths.
33 - Victor Lana
This only confirms the STAR TREK vision of our galaxy: that there are no doubt an infinite number of Earth class planets out there circling stars like our sun. Thus, the possibilities for life elsewhere are there to explore.
Great inspirational piece, Eric.
34 - Eric Olsen
thanks Victor, it does broaden one's parameters, doesn't it?
35 - bnmiele
the solar system is an unusual place and it can go on for ever
If we don't have the technology to go further than the whole world will come to an end and that would be horrible!
I'm not saying that it will soon but children are the future and if we don't teach them to be the future then there won't be a world to live in because you know teens these days!!!
36 - bnmiele
do you think that when we run out of resources like gas and other things that we will have to move to a different planet? What do you think will happen to our oxygen if people keep cutting down trees and other plants that produce oxygen to make other things that continue to make our life easier? It's like starting over from the stone age to now in rapid time !!!!!
37 - nerd killa
yall fucking nerds studying the planets