'Super-Earth' exoplanet spotted 42 light-years away

[DTS]

a "super-Earth" seven times our planet's mass, in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist.

Many more observations will be needed to confirm any other similarities.

But the find joins an ever-larger catalogue of more than 800 known exoplanets, and it seems only a matter of time before astronomers spot an "Earth 2.0" - a rocky planet with an atmosphere circling a Sun-like star in the habitable zone.
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HD 40307g, orbits the star in about 200 Earth-days and has a mass at least seven times that of Earth, joining a growing class of exoplanets called super-Earths.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20249753

[seremtan]

Kracus has already been there

[Whiskey 7]

Very interesting read there DTS

[Tsakali]

cool, but I wonder just how different it would be, even with everything else being equal.... I'm not even sure if a solid body can be stable in that size.

[losCHUNK]

Wonder if they have bandwidth caps

[GONNAFISTYA]

I'm pretty sure church groups are already trying to ban sex there.

[seremtan]

pretty sure there's already a trend among morons there for saying 'lol'

[Whiskey 7]

a "super-Earth" seven times our planet's mass, in the habitable zone where liquid water can exist.

Just wondering, if bipeds do exist would they be short or would their bone structure compensate for the planet mass (read gravity)?

Here is an interesting article to read and watch the video

[LawL]

I'm pretty sure church groups are already trying to ban sex there.

pretty sure there's already a trend among morons there for saying 'lol'

Not sure though.