Earth-Sized Planet Found Orbiting Alpha Centauri B

[BCSpace]

It's a hot one unfortunately:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/10/16/planet-same-size-as-earth-found-right-outside-solar-system/?intcmp=features

[Glenn101]

I don't think that it is Kolob. Maybe Dante's Inferno.

[BCSpace]

Everlasting burnings and beings made of asbestos.

[thesometimesaint]

cool.

[BCSpace]

Besides it's closeness to our system, as close as you can get, it's interesting because of the dynamical problems associated with planet formation in a binary system like this.

[thesometimesaint]

BCSpace:

Closeness in space is relative. Compared to the scale of even just our galaxy it is very very close. It takes light about 9 minutes to go from our sun to us, and 4.5 years for light to travel from the Alpha Centauri system of suns to us. At speeds humans, and/or their machines can presently obtain, it is still 10's of thousands of years away.

Edited October 17, 2012 by thesometimesaint

[The Nehor]

We need to find intelligent life so we can prank them. I want to pretend to be the Vogons and announce that their planet is scheduled for demolition so we can build a hyperspace bypass through their star system. Either that or shoot them spam advertisements non-stop.

There is a reason they will not let me work in the SETI program or its offshoots.

[urroner]

If planets around a binary system is a rarity, how about the planet they found that orbits four, count them, four stars, which is a.... wait for it...wait for it...a circumbinary system.

Citizen astronomers lead to first-of-a-kind discovery: circumbinary planet in four-star system

[shalamabobbi]

If planets around a binary system is a rarity, how about the planet they found that orbits four, count them, four stars, which is a.... wait for it...wait for it...a circumbinary system.

Citizen astronomers lead to first-of-a-kind discovery: circumbinary planet in four-star system

Whether or not one is able to name the seasons on such an orb is a the new test for the early onset of alzheimers..