Chris Cantell Discusses Science: New out in the Universe by Claudia Sonea

Many of you have seen or even grew up with shows like Star Trek and fantasized about other planets and other species similar to the human beings, if not human beings from another planet. The dream may go beyond its limits of preconscious and become a reality. Just recently European astronomers grasped a knowledge that could revolutionize people's perception of the Universe. Up to now there were no evidences of other planets orbiting a star. However, after a Swiss-French team, among which the name Swiss astronomer Didier Queloz is to be remembered, discovered that three super-Earths were revolving around a star, they have thought to do a new research and find out how many similar situation there are. At the initial discovery they used the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory (Chile), and through a special tool they checked about 100 starts and discovered that one-third of them have planets that revolve around them and these planets are very close to Earth in shape, size and composition. The three planets discovered show that the Universe has much more to reveal than we know and that many other planets are out there. Although they have a too hot atmosphere to be inhabited by people, things might change on the three super-Earths that are at a 42 mass light-years away. Furthermore, other planets might be exactly the same with Earth, thus the possibility of human existence out there is not to be ignored. What puzzles everyone is not the existence of the planets, but rather the instrument used to study them. It is highly kept under secrecy in Switzerland and in Chile. Don't click away, interesting news to come!

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by Claudia Sonea for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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