So basically, there's this planet about 20.5 light years away from Earth by the name of Gliese 581 d, discovered in 2007. Originally thought to be outside the habitable zone of its parent star (Gliese 581, a red dwarf much cooler than ours). But it was recently discovered that it orbits closer to its parent star than originally thought, making one side of it habitable and possible for life to exist.

If you could travel 20.5 light years in a lifetime...

This topic is for your imagination to run wild, or for your astrophysics to be unleashed.


Watch this video on Youtube.


Watch this video on Youtube.

Let's go there!

the videos weren't particularly informative and the planet looks like a big desert.

There's a huge amount of information on Wikipedia.

Too bad humans will never be able to live there.

Though i do hope they find some life on it, i'd love to see christianity RAGE.

how would life there make christianity rage...

Considering their stance on other lifeforms in the universe, it would probably make the pope do a backflip.

Cool.

And yet saddening.

Congratulations men, we have discovered a planet made almost entirely of blancmange.

There has to be atleast ONE other sentient lifeform out there

I think you're right or maybe they did exist and died out. There could have been lots of life out there but all sorts of things can happen over a period of lets say a million years or so. How old do they think the universe is now? We're less than a blink of an eye compared to the 'age' of the universe.

This just 4 days ago!

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpres ... 4x0-kiW52w