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NASA's planet hunting spacecraft Kepler has discovered a new alien world in its host star's habitable zone. This find could mean the planet is capable of holding water.
This latest find is the 2,326 find from Kepler, in the first 16 months of it being active. These findings, if confirmed would quadruple the current list of worlds known to exist beyond our solar system.
This is the first planet which could be potentially habitable, a first. This planet orbits a star, like our own sun.
Kitguru says: Scientists are particularly excited as the first step to finding a planet like Earth has just been taken.
It even looks like earth, but is there any land, hard to tell from that image, even if it computer generated.
@Brian
Check out the Kepler website:
http://kepler.nasa.gov/
It can only detect the dimming of the stars light, that how they figure out if there is a planet there.
We are a long, long way till we can actually produce real pictures of the planet with a few pixels let alone be able to zoom in and see the surface. So there is no way of knowing how the surface looks like, it might be completly covered by ice/water, or by who knows what. The image posted is just of an artist imagining this alien world.
@John
You were much nicer with your reply than I would have been. You are the better person.