New Planet Found - Gliese 581 c - VOA Story

For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."

The planet is just the right size, might have water in liquid form, and in galactic terms is relatively nearby at 120 trillion miles away. But the star it closely orbits, known as a "red dwarf," is much smaller, dimmer and cooler than our sun.

The new planet's star system is a mere 20.5 light years away, making Gliese 581 one of the 100 closest stars to Earth. It's so dim, you can't see it without a telescope, but it's somewhere in the constellation Libra, which is low in the southeastern sky during the midevening in the Northern Hemisphere.

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[Mister86Productions]

I'm going there for vacation, getting laid with aliens.

[gytis156]

How do they know that its heavier??

[TehDoomVideos]

@MusicGamesSports lol

[neuspeed79]

@gytis156 they used the law of universal gravitation to calculate its weight or F=GmMr/r ²

[pcrvg0808]

There`s no place like home !

[dumvideos19]

Well the new discoverd fourth planet in the system,gliese 581 g is in the middle of the habitable zone and the fifth planet gliese 581 d is at the edge of the habitable zone and gliese 581 c may be also in or close to the habitable zone.So we got maximum 3 habitable planets and minimum 1 habitable planet.

Thumbs up if you agree...

[irelandopera]

their alien flu - melts brain cells

[MusicGamesSports]

@Mister86Productions lol

[DETAILZSTUDIOS]

what does it matter because we wont be able to get there or communicate?

[caloncho33]

just remember how 2 speak spanish