Astronomers Find First Earth-like Planet in Habitable Zone

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon
Upgrade to the latest Flash Player for improved playback performance. Upgrade now or more info.
9,437
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Jan 5, 2008

A video from April 2007 by ESO (European Organisation for Astronomical Reasearch in the Southern Hemisphere) regarding the discovery of an earth-like planet outside our solar system around the red dwarf Gliese 581, 20.4 light years from earth. Source and more info- http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2007/pr-22-07.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 1 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Top Comments

  • 1 light year is roughly 6 trillion miles.

  • its interesting because its only 20 lightyears away...so we are actually seing it 20 years ago...compare 2 d other planets that are hundreds of lightyears away, studying d 20 years ago is much much better than studying 100 or 200 years ago...

see all

All Comments (44)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • I hope that satelites that was projected to photo universe crashes into Gliese and stirs trouble. And draw flys to invite into our universe as a threat by following our satelite. We need to fight the universe because we wanted to know as aggressors and I hope they come as predators so they can EAT us and grow & raise us as their food chain.

  • Unless they actually see a new planet, THEY HAVE NOT FOUND A NEW PLANET! All hogwosh! They say if a star seems to be pulled by gravity,that it must be a planet!All theory and no proof.Get a deep space telescope set up around or past Jupiter and maybe we will see some new planets.Until then..all speculation.

  • @duckfetzer

    You dumbass! A light year is the time it takes for light to travel in one year. So, if it's 20 light years away it take 20 YEARS TO GET HERE!

  • @duckfetzer actually I believe a light year is the time on how long the light took to travel to our vision. Meaning it's actually a measurement of time. Most anything we do is the same thing, and rather it being a measurement of distance it becomes a measurement of light, but how long that light takes to get here in years. So it's a measure or time since light gives us the illusion of time. Maybe i'm completely wrong, oh well.

  • @duckfetzer LAugh MA OFF! A light year is how far light travels in a year, 20 light years away means that it takes 20 years for the light to travel to us. Laugh OL

  • Dejavu

  • Do not only think that life is all there may be in the universe. It is very easy to become trapped in the thinking that we are used to by what we percieve to be existence. what if there is something else other than just life. something we are not able to no about or comprehend as the something else out there is not life as we no it.

  • |

    |

    \/

    ok what i do?

  • Shut the fuck up. No real scientist cares about how you're oriented with the zodiac. That's all bullshit.

  • same!

Loading...

Alert icon
0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more