NASA announces discovery planet much like Earth – Globo.com

The American Space Agency announced on Thursday (23), the discovery of a planet would be the most Earth-like ever found so far.

Brother or more cousin old. This is the Kepler-452b. And the relationship is with the Earth. The new planet discovered by NASA is a lot like ours. It revolves around a star also very similar to the Sun and only takes a little over a year – 385 days – to give a complete turn around that star

Another similarity:.. The Kepler- 452b is the so-called habitable zone. Means: Not far and not too close that sun. Well, and this is the detail that makes all the difference. Scientists believe that the Kepler sun is there, a good distance, the temperature there should not be too cold or too hot. And can be that there is water on the surface of the planet, as well as our earth. And if there is water there, it may be that there is also life.

But of course, as any prime, has difference. The Kepler- 452b is 60% larger than Earth. And the sun it is a little bigger and shines brighter than ours.

Despite all these information, NASA personnel still do not know exactly how the Kepler-452b. If there is ocean, trees, some kind of animal. But they suspect that the terrain is rocky there.

The Kepler Mission began in 2009 when a powerful telescope was launched into space to search for distant planets. And so far, it has confirmed the existence of over a thousand.

The Jeff Coughlin is one of the scientists responsible for the mission. He says that this discovery shows that there may be other planets. Even more like Earth. And with conditions for future generations, who knows, might even live there.