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Kepler 22b is a planet recently spotted, which has lots of similar features to Earth, it revolves around a star just like our sun. They are not yet sure whether it has water on it though, and without water, there cannot be any life forms, even bacteria!
Kepler 22b is 600 light years away, meaning the only way we would be able to look at it properly,I think, they would have to send another robot up there, and it will take a long time for that to even get there, meaning, in our lifetime (unless we find a way to go faster than the speed of light, thus getting there before we even left) we will not see footage of Kepler 22b apart from footage from hubble space telescopes and others.
From the BBC News website ---
It is the closest confirmed planet yet to one like ours - an "Earth 2.0"
However, the team does not yet know if Kepler 22-b is made mostly of rock, gas or liquid.
During the conference at which the result was announced, the Kepler team also said that it had spotted some 1,094 new candidate planets - nearly doubling the telescope's haul of potential far-flung worlds.
Kepler 22-b was one of 54 exoplanet candidates in habitable zones reported by the Kepler team in February, and is just the first to be formally confirmed using other telescopes.
More of these "Earth 2.0" candidates are likely to be confirmed in the near future, though a redefinition of the habitable zone's boundaries has brought that number down to 48. Ten of those are close to Earth-sized but so far all of the confirmed planets are larger than Earth.
'Superb opportunity'
The Kepler space telescope was designed to look at a fixed swathe of the night sky, staring intently at about 150,000 stars. The telescope is sensitive enough to see when a planet passes in front of its host star, dimming the star's light by a minuscule amount.
Kepler identifies these slight changes in starlight as candidate planets, which are then confirmed by further observations by Kepler and other telescopes in orbit and on Earth.
Comment with what you think and any other information about it, I will carry on researching and update the topic when I find anything!
Thank or comment to keep this topic ALIVE!
-Rossii
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Kepler 22b is 600 light years away, meaning the only way we would be able to look at it properly,I think, they would have to send another robot up there, and it will take a long time for that to even get there, meaning, in our lifetime (unless we find a way to go faster than the speed of light, thus getting there before we even left) we will not see footage of Kepler 22b apart from footage from hubble space telescopes and others.
From the BBC News website ---
It is the closest confirmed planet yet to one like ours - an "Earth 2.0"
However, the team does not yet know if Kepler 22-b is made mostly of rock, gas or liquid.
During the conference at which the result was announced, the Kepler team also said that it had spotted some 1,094 new candidate planets - nearly doubling the telescope's haul of potential far-flung worlds.
Kepler 22-b was one of 54 exoplanet candidates in habitable zones reported by the Kepler team in February, and is just the first to be formally confirmed using other telescopes.
More of these "Earth 2.0" candidates are likely to be confirmed in the near future, though a redefinition of the habitable zone's boundaries has brought that number down to 48. Ten of those are close to Earth-sized but so far all of the confirmed planets are larger than Earth.
'Superb opportunity'
The Kepler space telescope was designed to look at a fixed swathe of the night sky, staring intently at about 150,000 stars. The telescope is sensitive enough to see when a planet passes in front of its host star, dimming the star's light by a minuscule amount.
Kepler identifies these slight changes in starlight as candidate planets, which are then confirmed by further observations by Kepler and other telescopes in orbit and on Earth.
Comment with what you think and any other information about it, I will carry on researching and update the topic when I find anything!
Thank or comment to keep this topic ALIVE!
-Rossii
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Well in my opinion there has to be other life forms some where they can't just be the human race all on one planet
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didn't know don't really care honestly. we probably won't do much space travel which kinda sucks but oh well.
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Listening wrote didn't know don't really care honestly. we probably won't do much space travel which kinda sucks but oh well.
If you don't care, then why did you comment?
Spammuch??
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Added some more information up there;)
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We shall never know.. planets can take millions of light years to get there, who knows
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well maybe not on Kepler but certainly on different planets. there must be millions of planets .and million and millions of diff creatures, who knows , space is never ending .
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