Yessir, an international team of researchers, led by Dr. Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution and Dr. Guillem Anglada-Escudé of the University of Göttingen, has discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a star, which is a member of a triple system.

The researchers suggest that this planet receives about 90% of the light that Earth receives from the Sun.

“This planet is the new best candidate to support liquid water and, perhaps, life as we know it,” Dr. Anglada-Escudé said.

( Tis 22 light-years from Earth btw )

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French astronomers in May last year confirmed the first exoplanet, Gliese 581d, to meet key requirements for sustaining life. It is a rocky planet about 20 light-years away.

Swiss astronomers reported in August that another planet, HD 85512 b, about 36 light-years away seemed to be in the habitable zone of its star.

The US space agency NASA confirmed its first such planet late last year, Kepler 22b, about 600 light-years away.

Lets hope the natives aren't blue or James Cameron's copyright lawyers will be the first ones on the spaceship.

Would CHF120,000 be enough to survive there?

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The flight fares themselves cost a bomb

http://www.virgingalactic.com/

How come 90% of the light that Earth receives from the sun can travel 22 light-years and still reach that planet?