More importantly, they found Wolf 1061c - one of three moons red dwarf only 14 light years from us. Wolf 1061c located in the "Goldilocks zone" - a place not too hot nor too cold for liquid water exists, an important condition for life to appear.
"The discovery of this rare get people excited. No one has a similar planet Earth closer to that. And by that distance, the chances are very good that we can learn more on this planet, "CNN quoted study leader Duncan Wright said. Group announced the finding Monday 16/12.
NASA has more than 1,870 confirmed extrasolar planets, but this discovery is particularly important because both Wolf 1061c is where life may exist and has close to Earth.
The planets in the Goldilocks zone can survive the life of the intelligent species. However, Wright said that man can not live on Wolf 1061c because the conditions are not appropriate.
It has 1.8 times gravity than Earth, more importantly, the planet itself does not rotate, which means a perpetual inward half stars would be extremely hot, and the remaining in the pole well cold period.
However, according to Wright, could survive the region, "dusk", only partially toward the star, where the living has viability.
This planet is described as "super-Earth" because it 4 times to Earth and the whole surface can be rocky. This is just the initial discoveries of the world may exist near Earth life. There are many such planets in our galaxy unknown.
"There are about 50 billion red dwarfs in our galaxy and about 25 billion could have these small planets revolve around them. In the next 20 years, we will be able to learn more and pay Answer the question whether in this galaxy exists an intelligent species other or not, "Wright said.
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