Real astronomy: Earthlike planet discovered in its star's Goldilocks Zone - and it's close!

[robkelk]

Somebody clean up the Gliese 667 page, please - I've dropped a link there to http://news.ucsc.edu/2012/02/habitable-planet.html]the press release about the Earthlike planet in the goldilocks zone that folks at UCSC just found around Gliese 667 C.

(On second thought, perhaps Gliese 667 C should have its own page, much like Proximan Centauri has a page separate from the rest of Alpha Centauri and for the same astronomical reason.)

At the moment, nobody's claimed that system as an exploration destination. It's a bit farther from Sol than Delta Pavonis or Gliese 581, but closer than Zeta Tucanae... Any takers?
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Rob Kelk
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[HRogge]

Only 22 lightyears... that could maybe be done in a century with a laser propelled probe!

Damned, we need better telescopes, we need photos of this worlds!

It's really crazy, 10 years ago we thought "planets are rare" in the universe... then we thought "small planets are rare"... but it seems the only thing preventing us from seeing small worlds is the resolution of our measurements.

[robkelk]

Somebody clean up the Gliese 667 page, please - ...

Never mind; I just did that.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012