Earth Has a Brother: Living Planet is Now “Just Around The Corner!”

Earth has a brother: Living planet is now “just around the corner!”

Astronomers have found a habitable planet on which can be also nearly identical conditions as the Earth. The star GJ 667C while lying “only” 22 light years away.

If mankind possessed spacecraft, capable of speeds near the speed of light, the human crew could theoretically fly back and forth. However, if there would find life is not the same. Scientists can not yet say with certainty whether there is water on the planet, however it is unlikely. The system is still three other planets, gas giants appear.

“The amount of energy from the star makes the planet the right temperature, and if the atmosphere is still wet and hard surface water areas, the essential conditions for life,” said ABC News Chris Tinneya professor at the University of New South Wales. And that makes it the most promising candidate so far for the development of extraterrestrial life, although it is almost four times larger than Earth.

But some experts question that could be on the red dwarf planets develop life as the star of this class to send its surroundings deadly eruptions accompanied by strong radiation. These eruptions are more frequent and stronger than in our Sun.