NASA FINDS EARTH-LIKE PLANET Kepler 22-B

Kepler finds earth like planet and they named it 22b 22-b, almost like the 16b 16-b that was discovered not too long ago.

NASA FINDS EARTH-LIKE PLANET Kepler 22-B
The planet is smack in the middle of what astronomers call the Goldilocks zone, that hard to find place that's not too hot, not too cold, where water, which is essential for life, doesn't freeze or boil. And it has a shopping mall-like surface temperature of near 72 degrees (22 degrees Celsius), scientists say.
The planet's confirmation was announced by NASA along with other discoveries by its Kepler telescope, which was launched on a planet-hunting mission in 2009.
That's the first planet confirmed in the habitable zone for Kepler, which had already found Earth-like rocky planets elsewhere. Twice before astronomers have announced a planet found in that zone, but neither have been as promising.
"This is a phenomenal discovery in the course of human history," Geoff Marcy of University of California, Berkeley, one of the pioneers of planet-hunting outside our solar system, said in an email. "This discovery shows that we Homo sapiens are straining our reach into the universe to find planets that remind us of home. We are almost there."
The new planet - named Kepler-22b - has key aspects it shares with Earth. It circles a star that could be the twin of our sun and at just about the same distance. The planet's year of 290 days is even close to ours. It likely has water and rock.

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[jcue]

i wonder if there is intelligent life on this planet, and if so do they know about us, and do they know that we know about them now...and do they have the technology to reach us.. if they learn anything about our history they will possibly be worried about us being able to reach them..and if so.. are we screwed?????

i think too much!!

[123456vwxyz]

ok, then lets get the fuck out off earth.

[PoppaFrosty]

kepler 22 b? i hear we found the 22nd plan b

[RJL738]

Because of all this think about the fact that there are far more stars in the known universe than grains of sand or even grains of similar sediments to sand on every beach, desert, sandbox, vollyball court and other of the world, think about this.

[izlude2]

Our fastest craft travels around 35,000 mph. It would take around 11 million years to arrive. Your best hope would be creating a space time wave (like an ocean wave) and ride it. The speed of light only goes as fast as space time will allow it to... it may be possible to create a wave that travels faster than the speed of light in "normal conditions". You'd feel normal, but traveling faster than light in conditions surrounding the wave.

I estimate 50 earth years this way.