New Planet! Discovered 5 hours ago!

redstar-fireclan • 20 December 2011 at 6:57 PM

NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in the so-called habitable zone where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface, but they are the smallest exoplanets ever confirmed around a star like our sun.

The discovery marks the next important milestone in the ultimate search for planets like Earth. The new planets are thought to be rocky. Kepler-20e is slightly smaller than Venus, measuring 0.87 times the radius of Earth. Kepler-20f is a bit larger than Earth, measuring 1.03 times its radius. Both planets reside in a five-planet system called Kepler-20, approximately 1,000 light-years away in the constellation Lyra.

For more info go to:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/news/kepler-20-system.html

carnatate • 20 December 2011 at 6:58 PM

😃😃😃

crescentfeather • 20 December 2011 at 6:59 PM

0.0

OMGGGGG!!!

redstar-fireclan • 20 December 2011 at 7:01 PM

@cresantfeather
Lol, right?! I was like that too!
*Although I would like to learn more about Black Holes; But new Planets: O.O*

crescentfeather • 20 December 2011 at 7:06 PM

@redstar-fireclan When will they give it a REAL name? 😋

Oh! Ping fail D: I haven't seen that one before. I'll add it to my list of other amazing and unique ping fails. 😈 You wouldn't believe how MANY there are! /)_-)

redstar-fireclan • 20 December 2011 at 7:09 PM

@avelaingia
Ikr?! 8D
@cresantfeath lol xD

dragonstorm78 • 20 December 2011 at 7:10 PM

Ooh, cool! 😸

crescentfeather • 20 December 2011 at 7:10 PM

@redstar-fireclan NUU D: NOT AGAIN!

redstar-fireclan • 20 December 2011 at 7:13 PM

@crescentfeather
Lol, NASA has recently sent a spacecraft to Jupiter 8D!
Info: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/main/index.html

dragonfriend • 20 December 2011 at 8:41 PM

@redstar-fireclan you like black holes? Check out quasars 😊

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 11:36 AM

@dragonfriend
I L.O.V.E. Black holes.

seastar43 • 21 December 2011 at 2:12 PM

I heard it on the radio last night!! very exciting!!

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 2:13 PM

@seastar43
IKR?!

vampire666 • 21 December 2011 at 2:14 PM

😃 Fantastic! What are we going to discover next? 😱

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 2:15 PM

@vampire666
I'm guessing New Planets-and/or-More Black Holes. 😃

seastar43 • 21 December 2011 at 2:15 PM

@redstar-fireclan When will we be able to go to go there though? Cause isn't it supa far away?

vampire666 • 21 December 2011 at 2:17 PM

@redstar-fireclan - Sometimes I fear what's in our future, seeing what we all ready have. Did you know that there is an actual flying car? And there's a printer that prints actual objects. How much more could we possibly do? 😋

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 2:17 PM

@seastar43
That is true, but remember: Scienctist always find a way to do stuff 😃
@vampire666
Flying Car...oka,okay....How...? Nvm.

seastar43 • 21 December 2011 at 2:18 PM

@redstar-fireclan yeah but it always takes forever!! but that's how progress goes I guess.

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 2:19 PM

@seastar43 Yup.

balletninja • 21 December 2011 at 2:21 PM

Funny timing in correlation with 2012. Probs just a coincidence.

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 2:28 PM

@balletninja
Yup. Prob.

vampire666 • 21 December 2011 at 2:53 PM

@redstar-fireclan -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7f1feSjDks&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Taken from: http://www.gearfactor.com.hk

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 3:59 PM

@vampire666
I'm not allowed to watch Youtube, if I'm at meh grandma''s house. *Will watch when home.

lily- • 21 December 2011 at 5:11 PM

@redstar-fireclan
Cool.
Two more planets similar to Earth. A while back they were saying they found a planet that had the same orbit distance from their star like Earth has from the Sun, so it could possibly have life on it.
I wonder what life is like outside Planet Earth.
*starts to imagine as many possibilities she can*

vampire666 • 21 December 2011 at 5:12 PM

redstar-fireclan - Oh, okay. I'm pretty sure it isn't a hoax either, but hey, graphics and stuff is amazing these days. 😋

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 5:14 PM

@vampire666
Yea.
@lily-
Yes, they did find it! Live, posiblly not, but hey, I may be wroung!

Deleted • 21 December 2011 at 5:16 PM

They said that they are going to send a radio wave to them, but it's gonna take forever to get there XD

redstar-fireclan • 21 December 2011 at 5:19 PM

@live
Oh, yea, it will. O3O

ladybugheart • 21 December 2011 at 5:20 PM

Cool! 😃

But I've heard about this new planet days ago, so I doubt they discovered it five hours from this topic. xDD

Edit: Ooh, I didn't know there were two. o3o Interesting.