EARTH-LIKE PLANET CAN SUSTAIN LIFE A new member in a family of planets circling a red dwarf star 20 light-years away has just been found. It’s called Gliese 581g, and the ‘g’ may very well stand for Goldilocks. Gliese 581g is the first world discovered beyond Earth that’s the right size and location for life. “Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it,” Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News. via soupsoup

EARTH-LIKE PLANET CAN SUSTAIN LIFE

A new member in a family of planets circling a red dwarf star 20 light-years away has just been found. It’s called Gliese 581g, and the ‘g’ may very well stand for Goldilocks.

Gliese 581g is the first world discovered beyond Earth that’s the right size and location for life.

“Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it,” Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.

via soupsoup

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    It is just utterly impossible for us to be the only lifeforms in our known universe.
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