A Habitable Planet - Kepler-22b

December 5, 2011 NASA announced the discovery of a planet that is well positioned to support life. This video briefly describes the discovery and then provides instructions for viewing the area of space where the planet is located.
Terms used include light years, Right Ascension and Declination,

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[StanSanchez1]

I think it's Pandora :-)

[mulattopride82]

Maybe someone is currently pointing their own telescopes at us and wonders if theres a habitable planet around our sun(star). Perhaps they got their own freaky name for our sun and planet.lol

[MasterEiji]

nice info... seems that if the data is correct, it certainly ups the ante for other such worlds closer to home... who knows? Kepler-22b might even be inhabited...

[Chriz7164]

I wonder why Justin Bieber gets more than 300 million views in a song and this video only has 35,000?

[AtlantisCreationsTV]

Cool!!



[FangsOfTheNidhogg]

The logistics of getting there, colonizing it, and maintaining trade and communication with earth are...daunting to say the least. I'm not honestly sure if we'll ever be able to do it. Unless we took a shot in the dark and simply sent a colony pod of people to the planet and put people in cryogenic sleep. It's very feasible that we could get a ship to at least a quarter the speed of light, so it would take a long time but whats 100 years for someone in suspended animation?

[HCSAMANTHA420]

its crazy to think wut else could really be out there..

[Skatedave21]

how far away is it?

[xOrhan1976]

1 light year is = 10.000.000.000.000 kilometers. You'd better pack ur bags and move from now. Cuz there's 600 of it!

[DeathSithe92]

does it bum anyone else out that none of us will live longer enough to ever see this new world, or ever step foot upon it, its going to be another generations thing, god sometimes I wish i was born to see the day of interplanetary and space travel x(

[clingaa]

Exciting!

[larrybud]

@TheKeyb0ard94 Yes, because planets are relatively close to their own star compared to the distance the star is to earth. In addition, the star is much larger than it's orbiting planet. Think of it this way: Your friend is coming towards you a block away holding something in his hand. You can tell someone is coming towards you, but he's too far to be able to identify the much smaller object in his hand.