Has NASA finally found an Alien Earth?

[jimmy olsen]

I'm ing harder than I ever have before!

http://www.hngn.com/articles/111924/20150723/another-earth-nasa-hints-about-possible-new-planet-discovery-with-kepler-telescope.htm

NASA Found Alien Earth? Space Agency Hints About Possible New Planet Discovery With Kepler Telescope


Has NASA found Earth's twin?

By Rachel Cruz | Jul 23, 2015 12:17 AM EDT

U.S. space agency NASA announced that it will provide details of its latest discovery with the Kepler Space Telescope in a press conference scheduled for 9:00 a.m. PDT on July 23.

The Kepler Space Telescope, which was launched back in 2009, is supposed to find other "habitable zones" in space. Specifically, the mission involves searching for planets that also support water, a vital ingredient for sustaining life. The mission has focused on six regions in space, looking into a star's brightness to indicate that it could be a planet.


For the last six years, the Kepler Space Telescope has made thousands of planetary discoveries and there have been 3,000 candidates for planets with a habitable zone, according to CTV.


"Exoplanets, especially small Earth-size worlds, belonged within the realm of science fiction just 21 years ago," NASA said in the press release.


"Today, and thousands of discoveries later, astronomers are on the cusp of finding something people have dreamed about for thousands of years - another Earth," the agency further hinted.


"We're now closer than we've ever been for finding a twin for Earth," said Fergal Mullally from the Kepler Science Office back in January, when NASA announced that the telescope was able to find a planet that has Earth's size, according to Wired.


Doing a press conference, rather than just releasing a research paper or statement, suggests that NASA may finally confirm if one of these candidates is closest and most similar to Earth.


They may have finally found Earth's twin.

[Monoriu]

How far away is it?

[Eddie Teach]

I'm ing harder than I ever have before!

Impossible.

[Archy]

Time to start construction of the space fence against illegal aliens.

[Razgovory]

How far away is it?

So far away, that if you were to travel as fast as physically possible, it would still take over half a millennia.

[Tonitrus]

I expect lots of presumptions, educated guesses, and no real direct, solid evidence.

[jimmy olsen]

I expect lots of presumptions, educated guesses, and no real direct, solid evidence.

Kepler is solid as hell.

[Valmy]

How far away is it?

So far away, that if you were to travel as fast as physically possible, it would still take over half a millennia.

Well we should get going then.

[The Brain]

Have you seen Buenos Aires? I vote for WAR!

[Josquius]

How far away is it?

Thats a point that always gets me about these announcements. They're always around 10,000 light year away stars called L5025156.
Not good sci-fi fodder at all

[Valmy]

Yeah if we do find something that would only take 500 years to get to I would consider that a win.

[Jaron]

How hard are you, Tim?

[derspiess]

No.

[Grinning_Colossus]

It's 9 a.m. PDT. Any new planets yet?

[Liep]

It's 9 a.m. PDT. Any new planets yet?

Yes: Kepler-452b

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