Reuters: Planet Found Orbiting Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star

Irene Klotz reports ..

Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in a star’s habitable zone – the region around a star where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could exist

In related news, we’ll all be surprised that US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens – mab .. read more

 

 

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One Response to “Reuters: Planet Found Orbiting Habitable Zone of Sun-like Star”

  1. Mike Blaxill said:

    if ET’s found our planet on a telescope I wonder what they’d name it? something like “[insert alien scientist name here]39r”

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