Thursday, December 24, 2009

Earthlike Wet Planet Discovered

Too hot for us, but almost...signs of liquid water in the spectrum.  It orbits around a red dwarf inside the habitable or "Goldilocks" zone.  Click link above for WSJ video.  Also, see Space.com for a recent story on the subject. 30 Billion Earths? New Estimate of Exoplanets in Our Galaxy 
The photo below is from the Woodside Cosmology blog.


 See NASA comment on finding Spock's home world, Vulcan






See the Exoplanet Database Here 




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