Now we’re getting somewhere.
This artist’s conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in a star’s habitable zone — the region around a star where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could persist. The planet is 2.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star like our sun.
Finding not-quite suns was pretty cool, but fairly meaningless. Now we’re looking where things should be living. Only problem of course is what we’re looking at is something that existed 600 years ago. Now if we could just over that pesky traveling at the speed of light problem we’d be rockin!
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