Eight more planets found that could hold life in 'Goldilocks zone'

[tflaris]

Eight new planets have been discovered that could hold alien life in the “Goldilocks zone” of orbit – at just the right temperature for water.
Two of the small planets are the most Earth-like found so far, according to scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
They are orbiting distant stars in the habitable zone that is at the right temperature for liquid water to fuel organisms.

Too much heat from its star and it would boil away as steam. Too little, and the water would freeze solid.

All of the exoplanets are less than half the Earth’s size but could be rocky.
The lead author of the report, Guillermo Torres, announced the findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Tuesday. The research is also published in the Astrophysical Journal.
“Most of these planets have a good chance of being rocky, like Earth,” he said. “For our calculations we chose to adopt the broadest possible limits that can plausibly lead to suitable conditions for life.”
The two most Earth-like planets are known as Kepler-438b and Kepler-442b. Both orbit red dwarf stars that are smaller and cooler than our Sun.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...e-9961351.html


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[snakedoc]

Flaris, you're killing me slowly with this stuff.

[FW]

Flaris, you're killing me slowly with this stuff.

Then don't keep reading it. It is all in one sub-forum, don't even open the sub-forum.

[Pavão]

It shows to me these "“" "–" in all of Tony's posts, is it something on my end or is it something to do, as I suspect, due to copy and paste?

For example, instead of "Earth's size" it shows as "Earth’s size", is everyone seeing the same thing? I can still understand the articles, it just gets annoying at times, is there something I can do here on my end to fix it?

[MORGAN]

Yeah, I get that too.

[FW]

It shows to me these "“" "–" in all of Tony's posts, is it something on my end or is it something to do, as I suspect, due to copy and paste?

For example, instead of "Earth's size" it shows as "Earth’s size", is everyone seeing the same thing? I can still understand the articles, it just gets annoying at times, is there something I can do here on my end to fix it?

Yep, it is from the copy/paste. It happens when you copy a news story. I usually read through mine, and delete all that junk.

[Jack Hammer]

It's not too bad once you are used to it. I just ignore the funky quotations

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