NASA finds 'Earth's bigger, older cousin'

[Doomsday101]

(CNN)NASA said Thursday that its Kepler spacecraft has spotted "Earth's bigger, older cousin": the first nearly Earth-size planet to be found in the habitable zone of a star similar to our own.
Though NASA can't say for sure whether the planet is rocky like ours or has water and air, it's the closest match yet found.
"Today, Earth is a little less lonely," Kepler researcher Jon Jenkins said.
The planet, Kepler-452b, is about 1,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus. It's about 60% bigger than Earth, NASA says, and is located in its star's habitable zone -- the region where life-sustaining liquid water is possible on the surface of a planet.
A visitor there would experience gravity about twice that of Earth's, and planetary scientists say the odds of it having a rocky surface are "better than even."
While it's a bit farther from its star than Earth is from the sun, its star is brighter, so the planet gets about the same amount of energy from its star as Earth does from the sun. And that sunlight would be very similar to Earth's, Jenkins said.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/us/feat-nasa-kepler-planet-discovery/index.html

 

[Shunpike]

This is cool. Too bad human life isn't long enough to reach there but how cool would it be if we discovered thru super powered telescopes that there were living things on that planet.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Fat people would weight twice as much on Kepler-452B!

 

[Doomsday101]

This is cool. Too bad human life isn't long enough to reach there but how cool would it be if we discovered thru super powered telescopes that there were living things on that planet.

I put it in my gps say expected drive time 100 trillion hours. lol

 

[Shunpike]

Fat people would weight twice as much on Kepler-452B!

Tell us about wormholes and possibility of reaching this planet within minutes... I wanna be enlightened by the best Space Gazer here.

 

[Doomsday101]

Tell us about wormholes and possibility of reaching this planet within minutes... I wanna be enlightened by the best Space Gazer here.

 

[Tabascocat]

Just a couple of galaxies away. Get er dun NASA!

 

[big dog cowboy]

"Today, Earth is a little less lonely," Kepler researcher Jon Jenkins said.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Tell us about wormholes and possibility of reaching this planet within minutes... I wanna be enlightened by the best Space Gazer here.

Wormholes bend space/time to the point of that it creates a loop with another area of space/time. The issue is that to bend space/time me requires an enormous amount of energy. Our nuclear bombs wouldn't even cause a spark compared to the level of energy required to create a wormhole. If we want to use wormholes, we would require naturally occurring wormhole. Most if any exist, they would probably exist within blackholes which would have its own issues. First being gravitational spaghettification as you got close to a black hole.

Merry Christmas!

 

[RonSpringsdaman20]

and this is why we are not alone.