2 Earth-Size Planets Spotted Around Distant Star
23rd December 2011
Scientists have found two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star outside the solar system, an encouraging sign for prospects of finding life elsewhere.
The discovery shows that such planets exist and that they can be detected by the Kepler spacecraft, said Francois Fressin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. They’re the smallest planets found so far that orbit a star resembling our sun.
December 23rd, 2011 at 18:00
I probably would’ve noticed another star inside our solar system.