NASA Discover "Earth 2.0"

[Oshino Shinobu]

NASA has discovered the most Earth-Like planet to date, named Kepler-452b, but being dubbed "Earth 2.0" by many. 

 

It is actually 60% larger than Earth, but is well within the habitable zone of its star, which is in the same class as the Sun, only a little larger and brighter. 

 

 

Kepler-452b, however, orbits a parent star which belongs to the same class as the Sun: it is just 4% more massive and 10% brighter. Kepler-452b takes 385 days to complete a full circuit of this star, so its orbital period is 5% longer than Earth's.

 

The mass of Kepler-452b cannot be measured yet, so astronomers have to rely on models to estimate a range of possible masses, with the most likely being five times that of Earth. If it is rocky, the world would likely still have active volcanism and its gravity would be roughly twice that on our own planet.

 

There are 500 other planets that have recently been discovered, but Kepler-452b is the most Earth like of all of them, with the highest probability of containing liquid water, and therefore (most likely, if there is water) life. 

 

 

The new world is included in a haul of 500 new possible planets sighted by the Kepler space telescope around distant stars.

 

Twelve of the new candidates are less than twice Earth's diameter, orbiting in the so-called habitable zone around their star.

 

This zone refers to a range of distances at which the energy radiated by the star would permit water to exist as a liquid on the planet's surface if certain other conditions are also met.

 

Of these 500 candidates, Kepler-452b is the first to be confirmed as a planet.

 

Dr Suzanne Aigrain, from the University of Oxford, who was not involved with the study, told BBC News: "I do believe the properties described for Kepler-452b are the most Earth-like I've come across for a confirmed planet to date.

"What seems even more significant to me is the number of planets in the habitable zone of their host stars with radii below two Earth radii; 12 is quite a few compared to the pre-existing Kepler planet catalogue.

 

 

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[C0LL0SS0S]

Lets invade them, but maybe learn our lessons from the first earth and give a shit about money, what am I takling about, inb4 new residency for the rich

[Oshino Shinobu]

Lets invade them, but maybe learn our lessons from the first earth and give a shit about money, what am I takling about, inb4 new residency for the rich

House prices would be... Astronomical!

[Real_PhillBert]

I was just about to post about this You win this round.

 

We will need to work on some warp field/wormhole technology before we will be able to even get near this planet. 

 

Cool none-the-less. 

[Lethal Seraph]

Kepler-452b has OIL? Looks like it could use some democracy.

[Altecice]

House prices would be... Astronomical!

 

[themaniac]

I wonder how long until we can colonize the planet

[NAP51DMustang]

I say we call it Bob

[Real_PhillBert]

I wonder how long until we can colonize the planet

 

It's 1400 light years away; it is going to be a while. 

[themaniac]

It's 1400 light years away; it is going to be a while. 

ok time to start the space program for linustopia

[Rohith_Kumar_Sp]

[tsk]

Very exciting, but at the same time depressing when you realize how far away it is.

[NateGSR117]

This is super cool! I would love to see it in person but I don't think that'll happen, (at least in my life time).

[Altecice]

This is super cool! I would love to see it in person but I don't think that'll happen, (at least in my life time).

 

Or anybody's lifetime if its 1600 Light-years away.

[hong1204]

Can't wait visit a shopping mall there!

[SirNumbers]

Kepler-452b has OIL? Looks like it could use some democracy.

Quote of the day

[Toddwjp]

well we would never get to visit until we the figure out how to turn the mathematical model for faster then light travel in to something real.

[Yog]

?

[Shaade]

Lets invade them, but maybe learn our lessons from the first earth and give a shit about money, what am I takling about, inb4 new residency for the rich

 

Or quite possibly get bitch-slapped back where we belong by a far more advanced species that's also roughly 1.6 times bigger and stronger than us physically...

[FakezZ]

A ONE WAY TICKET PLEASE!

[Lethal Seraph]

Thought this would be fitting...

 

"... The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

 

The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

 

-Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

[Doobeedoo]

We need mass relay!

[xeromynd]

It's actually really depressing to see a discovery like this made, and then simultaneously realize you probably won't exist when humanity does all the awesome space exploration needed to actually GET there.

[cluelessgenius]

It's actually really depressing to see a discovery like this made, and then simultaneously realize you probably won't exist when humanity does all the awesome space exploration needed to actually GET there.

well lets hope we can experience some form of communication at least then 

[themaniac]

It's actually really depressing to see a discovery like this made, and then simultaneously realize you probably won't exist when humanity does all the awesome space exploration needed to actually GET there.

unless you cryogenically freeze yourself