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Friday, April 19, 2013

Most Earth like Planets yet....

    They’re not quite Earth’s twins, but they might be its big sisters. Two planets slightly larger than Earth have been found by NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The planets circle their star at a distance seemingly just right for life. Kepler’s latest discovery is a five-planet system around a star called Kepler-62, some 1,200 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.  The inner three worlds are too hot for life, but planets Kepler-62e and Kepler-62f are far more accommodating. They are 1.6 and 1.4 times the diameter of Earth, respectively, and their orbits are within the boundaries of the habitable zone in which scientists think liquid water could exist..... This is really exciting, although very far away, it would be way cool to explore a distant and wild planet. This sparks my interest because our planet is the biggest rock planet in our solar system. So could this planet really be made out of rock?

I got this information from  http://www.sciencenews.org

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