Monday, June 13, 2005

Extra-Solar Earth-like Planet Found

Scientists have found a planet outside of our solar-system that is more like Earth than like Jupiter. They apparently used techniques similar to what I heard about in March, just finding an extra wobble on the star. Only 15 light-years away, much closer to its sun, and its year is only about 2 of our days long. It may not have life, but it's probably just the first one of these that we'll discover. We could have a round trip conversation with them in only 30 years time...

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