New Earth Found Toward the Doomsday Issues

New Earth Found Toward the Doomsday Issues - A habitable planet found orbiting a sun-like star. Planets with conditions that could support life are estimated within fairly close to Earth. Astronomers say the planet is visible with the naked eye.

Whether the invention is arguably encouraging or futile. After all, crashing the universe will end on Friday, December 21, 2012. At least that Jose Arguelles prediction that is based on the Mayan calendar calculations.

Unnamed planet is one of the five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, a star within 12 light-years away and is almost identical to the sun. The fifth planet was predicted two to six times the size of Earth.

"One of them, with five times the mass of Earth, lies in the" habitable zone "star Tau Ceti," said James Jenkins, a member of the research team from the University of Hertfordshire, Wednesday, December 19, 2012. These findings appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Habitable zone Jenkins is known as the "Goldilocks zone", ie, orbital areas that are not too hot or cold surfaces that allow water to remain liquid. Conditions were favorable for the emergence of life.

The system is considered as the planet Tau Ceti solar system with the lowest mass ever detected. Astronomers found it by looking for radial velocity method "wobble" in the movement of a star caused by the gravitational pull of the planet. The technique was combined with data from over 6000 observations from three different telescopes.

"Tau Ceti is one of the closest to the Earth's cosmic neighbors. We can study the atmospheres of the planets are in the not too long," said Jenkins.

Since the 1990s, more than 800 planets have been found orbiting stars beyond the sun. These planets called exoplanets. Astronomers have long been interested in examining exoplanets that are closest to the sun.

"Each star has a planet definitely. We believe there are many Earth-like planets outside the solar system, especially those close to the sun," said Professor Steve Vogt, a member of the team from the University of California, USA. - New Earth Found Toward the Doomsday Issues. Source: Tempo.co