Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed

[Bouncer]

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of an Earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" around a star not unlike our own.

The planet, Kepler 22-b, lies about 600 light-years away and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth, and has a temperature of about 22C.

It is the closest confirmed planet yet to one like ours - an "Earth 2.0".

BBC News - Kepler 22-b: Earth-like planet confirmed

[Scrumhalf]

Very significant discovery. Up to this point, they were largely detecting so-called Hot Jupiters, extremely large gas giants orbiting close to the stars. Now they are discovering planets that could potentially be habitable. Very very cool!

[Bouncer]

and once we figure out how to travel at the speed of light it will only take us 600 years to get there! :D

fucken amazing how big the universe is. 600 light years is an amazing distance and yet that planet is close to us on the scale of the universe.

[decadecadeca]

I need to be cryogenically stored so they can bring me back when we finally have the ability to travel to these places.

[BEAST]

Picture or bs. :D

[Mr I]

Good bit of english news there lol, saw this this morning, its actually quite old news but a glimmer of hope none the less, how long did they day it woulda take to get there?

[dna9488]

that is cool. I guess its time to move to Earth 2.0