Sunday, October 3, 2010

Too Busy Yesterday - New Planet: Gliese 581g

So I was out the whole day so I didn`t have time to post anything yesterday. However, waking up this morning, I read some news about a new planet that astronomers have discovered: Gliese 581g.
This planet, located about 20 light years away from Earth is said to have conditions where extraterrestrial life might exist. The planet is rocky and is orbiting a red dwarf star. However, the orbit is so short that on the planet, one year is only 37 days. Discovery teams everywhere have said that the planet could have water and an atmosphere. An astronomer even said that:
 "the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent."
So with all these excitement about new life forms for the past couple days, what are you opinions on this? Personally, I would really like to see what kinda of life exists on this planet and what they are capable of. However, the part I am most interested in is how they look like. If aliens do exist, will they look like the ones we see in movies? Or something like a Zerg?
Read more about it here.



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