NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope discovered an Earth-like planet circling a nearby star within the Goldilocks zone of our galaxy. Kepler-186f is around 500 light-years from Earth in the Cygnus constellation. The habitable zone, also identified as the Goldilocks zone, is the area around a star within which planetary-mass objects with enough atmospheric pressure can sustain liquid water at their surfaces.
While it has been projected that there are at least 40 billion Earth-sized planets circling in our Milky Way Galaxy, this specific finding is labelled the first Earth-sized planet to be discovered in the habitable zone of another star.
What does this mean?In addition to Kepler-186f, there are 4 other planets that circle a nearby star within the Kepler-186f system. What this means is that if the neighbouring star to this planet is just like our Sun, then the likelihood of life on this planet exponentially increases.
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RedditMayne on October 22nd, 2018 at 02:10 UTC »
Norway, you put that right back in the water this instant. You too, Japan.
KDY_ISD on October 22nd, 2018 at 00:05 UTC »
Some things that happened around when this shark was born:
Christopher Columbus died Martin Luther was ordained da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa Francis Xavier is bornSausageMcWonderpants on October 21st, 2018 at 23:19 UTC »
Pro life prolonging tip: live in very cold water and eat fish.