Found, Earth-like Planet

	(Click on the picture to edit it) Close The planet was named GJ 1214b, measuring 2.7 times larger than Earthummary too long (max 500 characters) The team of astronomers United States (U.S.) to find an Earth-like planets in other solar systems. Planet larger than Earth and has a water content. The findings of the team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics was published in the journal Nature, Wednesday, December 16, 2009. The planet was named GJ 1214b. Size 2.7 times larger than Earth, the planet around the sun, the smaller and less luminous than the sun in our solar system. Although the planet GJ 1214b likely to have an atmosphere that is too thick and too hot for such life forms on Earth, the discovery was a major achievement in the search for life on other planets "The biggest excitement is because we found a world with a water content around the star is very small and very close, is just 40 light years from our solar system," said David Charbonneau, professor of astronomy at Harvard University and chairman of the authors of articles in journals team Nature, as quoted from the page of the CNN television station. Planet GJ 1214b classified as "super-Earth" because the size of between one and ten times larger than Earth. In recent years, scientists already knew of the existence of this super planets. Most astronomers have found very large, so more like Jupiter than Earth. Charbonneau said, life on the planet GJ 1214b likely will not like life on Earth. "This planet is likely to have liquid water," he said.