Foreign Planet Similar to Earth Support Emergence of Life

                                                                                                                                                                                                    CALIFORNIA - US space agency, NASA said the discovery of alien planets, or planets that resemble Earth could support the emergence of life. Scientists have recently discovered a planet which has similarities with Earth.

Reported by Sky, Friday (18/04/2014), this

alien planet found orbiting the sun. Exoplanet brown one has size similar to Earth and is in the habitable zone. Which means that the distance between the planet orbits star not too much or not too close so as to produce a temperature as the Earth's temperature and allow to live.

Astronomers call this planet named Kepler-186f. This alien planets discovered by Kepler telescope operated by NASA scientists.

Astronomers believe that planets in the Milky Way galaxy has a high chance related to the emergence of life. The planet is discovered orbiting in the habitable zone (habitable) with a distance of 500 light years from Earth.

What makes astronomers believe that planet has life is, not only the exact size of Earth, but also the position of the stars that diorbitnya. Planet Kepler-186f have the potential to save water.

This water is becoming one of the key elements to support the development of life. "We can say now that the other planets, potentially as habitable world, have similarities in the size of the Earth. It is no longer in the realm of science fiction," said Elisa Quintana of NASA.

Approximately 1,800 planets detected over the past 20 years. Reportedly, there are only 20 alien planets orbiting in the habitable zone, but larger than the Earth. Scientists today can investigate the composition of the atmosphere and the surface of the planet Kepler-186f.

(Ahl)

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