Astronomers say they have detected a planet just six and a half times as massive as Earth - at a distance so close its atmosphere could be studied, and with a density so low it's almost certain to have abundant water.

The alien world known as GJ 1214b orbits a red dwarf star one-fifth the size of our own sun, 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, the astronomers reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... ?GT1=43001

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History shows again and again how nature points up the folly of man

This is one of the Exoplanets they have found that i would really like to see a high resolution picture of.

Hopefully before I die.

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"All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct." -- Carl Sagan