Goldelocks Planet

Could Goldilocks planet be just right for feel? -0-1 AP Photo/Zina Deretsky, National lore FoundationAn mechanic rendering by Lynette Cook, National Science Foundation, shows the new planet on the right. 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The planet itself is neither too big nor too small for the proper surface, gravity and atmosphere. Its just right. Just like Earth. This really is the first Goldilocks planet, verbalise co-discoverer R. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Related Seven vanquish places to sleep under the stars-3 The new planet sits smack in the middle of what astronomers refer to as the habitable zone, unlike any of the n other(a) 500 early(a) planets astronomers have found outside our solar ashes. And it is in our galactic neighborhood, suggesting that plenty of Earth-like planets circle other stars. Finding a planet that could potentially support life is a major step toward answering the timeless question Are we alone?Scientists have jumped the gun before on proclaiming that planets outside our solar system were habitable only to have them turn out to be not quite so conducive to life. But this one is so clearly in the right zone that five outside astronomers told The Associated Press it seems to be the real thing. This is the first one Im truly excited closely, said Penn State Universitys Jim Kasting. He said this planet is a pretty prime candidate for harboring life. Life on other plane ts doesnt mean E. T. Even a simple single-cell bacteria or the akin of shower mold would shake perceptions about the uniqueness of life on Earth.But there are still many unanswered questions about this strange planet. It is about three times the mass of Earth, slightly larger in width and much closer to its star 14 million miles away versus 93 million. Its so close to its version of the sun that it orbits every 37 days. And it doesnt rotate much, so one side is almost always bright, the other dark. Temperatures can be as hot as 160 degrees or as frigid as 25 degrees below zero, but in between in the land of unremitting sunrise it would be shirt-sleeve weather, said co-discoverer Steven Vogt of the University of California at Santa Cruz.Its unknown whether water actually exists on the planet, and what kind of atmosphere it has. But because conditions are ideal for liquid water, and because there always seems to be life on Earth where there is water, Vogt believes that chances fo r life on this planet are 100 percent. The astronomers findings are being create in Astrophysical Journal and were announced by the National Science Foundation on Wednesday. The planet circles a star called Gliese 581.Its about 120 one million million million miles away, so it would take several generations for a spaceship to get there. It may seem like a long distance, but in the scheme of the bulky universe, this planet is like right in our face, right next door to us, Vogt said in an interview. That close proximity and the way it was found so early in astronomers search for habitable planets hints to scientists that planets like Earth are probably not that rare. Vogt and Butler ran some calculations, with giant