New planet

[blobrana]

An international team of astronomers has found the smallest Earth-like planet yet outside our Solar System.

The new planet has five times the Earth's mass and can be found about 25,000 light-years away towards the centre of the Milky Way, orbiting a red dwarf star.
The discovery, reported in the journal Nature, was made using a method called microlensing, which can detect far-off planets with an Earth-like mass.

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[Wilse]

Excellent, thanks for the news Blob.

[whabang]

Come on, you apes! Do you want to live forever?!?! :)

I wonder when they'll have tourist-trips there.

[Karlos]

@whabang

At 25000 light years distant you better remember to make sure you take your flight socks :-D That's some long haul trip.

Bobsleding ther eought to be a laugh, plenty of hard ice there and as the place is around 5 earth masses, that surface gravity is sure to bring you down the chute at a fair old clip :-D

[Vincent]

whabang wrote:
Come on, you apes! Do you want to live forever?!?! :)

I wonder when they'll have tourist-trips there.

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[Agafaster]

...yeah, even if your ship has a star drive based on Heim theory !

(accurately predicts masses of elementary particles, infer Mars in 3hrs, Tau Ceti in 80 days. no, I'm not making this up !)