The popularity of imaginings of things with green heads, of life in far off universes, or travel at light speed is evident in our pop-culture and media. A new planet showing signs of similarity with our own planet has recently been confirmed, the planet Kepler 22-b.
So far it is the closet planet to earth with so many similarities. This planet is also in range of a star similar to our own. Through the Kepler telescope a team of astronomers have been able to identify about 2,326 possibly earth-like planets. Over the holidays Kepler 22-b was confirmed as an earth-like candidate.
Kepler b-22 is about 15% closer to its sun making its year shorter at 290 days. The star's light however is around 25% less than our own, leaving the planet at a mild 22 degrees Celsius.
The team expects to identify many more earth-like candidates in the future.
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