Video News File: Kepler Discovers First Earth-size Planet in the Habitable Zone of Another Star

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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has discovered the first validated Earth-size planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a distant star, an area where liquid water might exist on its surface. The planet, Kepler-186f, is ten percent larger in size than Earth and orbits its parent star, Kepler-186, every 130 days. The star, located about 500 light-years from Earth, is classified as an M1 dwarf and is half the size and mass of our sun.

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what is the distance of Kepler to its sun?

AmmadHassan
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there are probably billions of earth size planet in habitable zone to be discovered in the universe. it was only matter of time before we find one.

imhh
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They can locate possibly habitable planets 500 lightyears away, but they can't edit a decent video. 

noahtalksalot
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Anyone who thinks this is fake is stupid or hardcore religous. This is an animation, but the discovery is real. Yes, you may think that the whole thing is fake, but the Kepler telescope is a deep space telescope that is solar powered. It has been traveling for quite a while now. It can also take pictures from so far away you would be looking at a star planet etc about 10 million years ago, heck, even billions of years ago. Yes, these planets spotted may be gone at this exact moment, but dosn't mean new ones can't be made. And maybe even life will evolve when he can finally visit, so stop the hate and gove NASA and SETTI some respect! 

basedchad
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my first thought goes to Carl Sagan and all the people like him. Thank you guys!

Angelo_Trifilio
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This video was so boring and and lacking some emotional substance, I feel like it was made by Sheldon, which is one of the reasons why this video is so very awesome. Great job, Kepler team! Keep it up

santeleon
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Does it concern anyone that while we're looking for Earth-like planets, we might "accidentally" find activity on one of them? If that happens, then what do we do?

kempmt
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All of you saying we'll never have the technology to find life, or to know how old the Earth is or whatever... think about it....if you brought an iPhone to people just 150 years ago (a very small amount of time), it would amaze them and be as unbelievable as time travel or any comparable technology would be for us. They obviously didn't think iPhones would ever be possible. OPEN YOUR MINDS PEOPLE

zmod
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What about having the same magnetosphere that Earth does? It would have to be protected in order to be habitable, right?

chemicallylemon
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The planet is two times closer to its sun but the sun itself is twice smaller than our sun, so it's perfect match to our system, now the only thing we need to know before living there is wither there is water or not !

shady
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what we see now is an after image of the planet 492 years ago, and it was destroyed  for almost 30 years due to natural disaster. the last survivor is living somewhere in Kansas.

hithummah
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Been looking at this pin for three years.  The planet is nice.

dsncarruthers
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I wonder if i'll get phone reception n Kepler...

torguy
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How long it takes to ride a bike on the new planet? Thank you.

Painmachinecz
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Nasa dudes... It's most likely that all of you are some sort of super geniuses... Watch some video editing tutorials before you post again a video... Great work on Kepler 186 though! Thumbs up!

PanosLa
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Confirming this is relatively easy compared to KOI-3284.01, KOI-5927.01 and KOI-5123.01.

artman
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I wanna know if life exists on 186f...Do we have to land there to find out or is there a minute chance future telescope modifications would allow us to get radar images such as those on googleearth? lol...all joking aside

bubba
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And when the plane  Malaysia airlines will be found here on Earth??

greenwich
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Funny how this is the "first" when you've reported several "firsts" before this.  And where are the actual photos and videos of the findings and not just graphics?

TheTruathlete
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Imagine if there are intelligent lifeforms on Kepler! wow...but perhaps we'll never know...

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