This is an artist rendering of the system that contains the first "Goldilocks" planet we've found outside our own system. Why isn't this on the front page instead of Vol State's football program? This is what's wrong with this country. Where's the fascination with our universe and the urge to explore? NASA whithers on the vine while Albert Haynesworth complains about his 21 million bonus check.
Read THIS for the details.
Here's my favorite part:
"But perhaps the most interesting and exciting aspect of all this is what it implies. The Milky Way galaxy is composed of about 200 billion stars, and is 100,000 light years across. The fact that we found a planet that is even anything like the Earth at all orbiting another star only 20 light years away makes me extremely optimistic that earthlike planets are everywhere in our galaxy. 20 light years is practically in our lap compared to the vast size of our galaxy, so statistically speaking, it seems very likely it’s not unique. I don’t want to extrapolate from a data set of two (us and them), but if this is typical, there could be millions of such planets in the galaxy. Millions."
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