It’s like Earth, but it will take 285,000 years to get there
wow..what a figure !! its awesome..That's what makes Gliese special
Some Facts :
- Like Earth, it is a small planet — 1.5 times Earth's diameter.
- Planets of that size are not blobs of gas but rocky.
- It also orbits its parent sun at a distance where liquid water could exist (the estimated temperature is between 0 and 40 degrees).
- And liquid water could mean life.
- Maybe the first potentially habitable planet.
- We don't know if it's got an ozone shield or anything like that.
"There's probably millions or billions of them out there, but this is the first one to be found," said Malcolm Walter, director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquarie University. "I don't think we know enough about it yet. It's still early days. I don't think we can say anything about interstellar life."
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