Gliese 581g: New Planet Dicovered this 2010
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Gliese 581g: New Planet Dicovered This 2010 – Earth’s population is growing exponentially each year. Time will come that our resources will become scarce for everyone. Earth is so far the only planet in the universe which can support life.
For the longest time, scientists have been exploring the universe to discover a new planet which can support life. NASA sent several satellites in order to capture images of nearby planets for their research. One of the most studied planet is the red planet known as Mars because of the possible presence of water. However, based on studies, the discovery of lack of a magnetosphere and its extremely thin atmosphere pose great challenge to life’s sustainability in Mars. 
A recent study conducted by a team of planet hunters from the University of California (UC) Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington led to the discovery of a new planet using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. Accordingly, the new findings are based on 11 years of observations of the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581. Gliese 581 is located 20 light years away from Earth in the constellation Libra.
The new planet discovered is located in the Gliese 581 star system, in the so-called “Goldilocks zone” or an area where planets can can support liquid water on their surface. Hence the new planet discovered this year 2010 was named “Gliese 581g” or the “Goldilocks Planet”. Reportedly, this new planet discovered has a mass of three to four times that of Earth and orbits its star in just under 37 days.
There’s one more interesting fact about this newly discovered planet called Gliese 581g. Since it is tidally locked to the Gliese 581 dwarf star, one side of the planet is always facing the star and is in perpetual daylight, while the side facing away from the star is in perpetual darkness.
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Wait for a best technologies in d future(10years) to get surface images ?
i hope…your discovery of a new planet will succeed….good luck and have a better future with your planet…thnx a lot 4 the information..
I think this will be a great discovery…
Someone tell me… is this new planet in another solar system? Or is it in ours somehow?
Hi, Riss. No, Gliese is very far away in another solar system. 20.5 light years, to be exact. Our current rocket science is too primitive for that sort of space travel. It would take humans more than 200 years reach Gliese. However, scientists (at CERN in Switzerland, for instance) are researching new forms of energy that could fuel future journeys such as this one.
I am a lover of space technology, and congratulate nasa for their hardwork
good job nasa now just make a ship to being half of earth there and give the new planet a real name heres one reach
if the planet could in fact sustain life then maybe there are already inhabitants. never know
Check your facts again 200 to travel lol you know how 1 light year is long even voyager1 and 2 is not out of our solar system and traveling now for 30+ years only thing you was right about that is 20.5 lights years away
At a space shuttle’s top speed 17,500 MPH it would take 766,000 years to get there
how many years would it to take for it’s light to reach earth? the planet could be from a long time ago and no longer be there. Without some way to bend space and time we will never make it that far or even come close.
We as Humans try to go fast/burning alot of fuel.. The key is to somehow bend space and time and to take a short cut to where we would like to go. We have to work smarter and not harder… We have to beat the distance problem with an intelligent solution. We need to work on using more of our brains… Many say we use only 10% of our brains if we could use lets say 30% of our brains we would find a solution like how to get to Gliese rather easy. We simply are not smart enough to do much unless we expand our brains.
For years People been saying Aliens are these Grey/Green big headed big eyed little People. I don’t think this is true. I think Aliens are just like you (Human) and I think the only real difference is they use a different percentage of their brain than we do. We are more capable than what we are programmed..Ok check this out Take a car for example, lets say a Grand Prix it goes a certain speed and it’s performance is limited and the car is capable of much more when you take off a restrictor plate.
Until we tap into our brains and use more of it, we won’t be going to far into space.. We will be building giant rockets that burn a stupid amount of fuel and compared to the size of the Universe won’t be getting to far with it.
I would like to go to this new planet. I think it’s a great discovery.
I’m just ten years old but my classmate gave me a newspaper about this new planet called Gliese she told me I should research this and I end up seeing this one. I went to arXiv.org I saw it but probably I didn’t understand it so I went Google and search for a better one and saw this. I’m sure she will be happy for this info. I woud just ike to congratulate NASA for their new discovery and I hope they will find better ways for our future.
what kind of planet is it?
thank you for your discovery i hope u could make me part of it send me there
Wtf is wrong with you all in the comments? Bridget is the ONLY one talking any sense. Did you read the article? NASA did NOT make this discovery. A team of students did. NASA is only referenced to say that they sent rovers and satellites to Mars. Not to this new planet.
Shuttles top speed is NOT 17,500. That is the average velocity when in synchronous orbit. Space is frictionless. As long as you can add thrust to an object it will continue to accelerate. Thats why any rocket burns outside the planets gravity are computer controlled to the second. So that you dont end up going to fast, to far, too short, whatever.
All of you but Bridget go back and take your Intro to Physics highschool class again. Also learn to read while your at it.
The general public should be more skeptical of these types of ‘discoveries’, and the media is part of the problem why they are not.
My views on “Why the Public should be skeptical about the newly found ‘Earth-like’ planet Gliese 581 G” may be too long to post here, but can be found at http://bit.ly/aXxzOV (my wordpress blog) or http://bit.ly/aT6yuq (my tumblr blog).
Thanks -H.E.Miller
when i started reading i thought it was going to be filled with obvious information, but really it came out to be really interesting. keep writing!
Wow. If the planet is 3 to 4 times bigger than the earth we wouldn’t be able to live on it, we’d be crushed by gravity. Or eventually get gravitation sickness.
i know this is utterly crazy but if scientists find a way to go fasteer than the speed of light and have 99.9% effiecentcy we could make it or try to use a powerfull electric field ,say 10000megavolts to project some sort of time warp to travel across to, where ever you wanna go…
I’ll start living on the Darkside…thanks
It looks like a great news,right? The only problem I have with this discovery is that right now/I mean for at least next hundred years/we can only dream about going there.Our space technology is yet way too primitive to even dream about reaching to planets like this one.At this time with our technical means it would take at least couple of hundreds of thousand years to get there.And even if we were able by some miracle new technology to reach at least one tenth of light speed-it would take more than 2 or 3 generation of cosmonauts or astronautes to accomplish this travel.—So in my opinion-this could be done perhabs in next century-provided/and that bothers me most/that people of this planet will not destroy ourself.
We will hear more about Gliese581 g.
If it is tide-locked, the near hemisphere will be baked, and the far hemisphere everlasting night. But a band of mild temperatures in between might have liquid water and forests, whatever. The gravity would not be so much greater. But getting there is very iffy for now.
I agree Jerry and another thing is that they say that they have been in space i have a couple of documentaries you should check out ” Something Funny Happened While On The Way To The Moon” and “Did They Really Go ? ” you would get a better understanding of what lies the government tells us. It’s really amazing how this American dream saying is really false. If you are a cut throat person that’s the dream for you and you still might not be able to join, you have to be part of that special group unless you get lucky. I’m learning that everything is really a myth, false, and not true. Sarah is preparing herself to run for President with her fake reality show. None of things they show her and her family doing they never done before, but she’s getting them ready and faking the American people out like they are this all around American family, nothing towards her family, but she is a crook like her daughter should not still be on Dancing With the Stars. She’s still there because that’s Sarah’s way of winning the people. If her daughter wins or Sarah becomes President I’m so done and I’m moving to another country and changing my identity.
enthado ee planet karangathe?
my question is, do they look like us?? are they more advance??? do they now about us??? it kind a cool and creepy same time
is the planet have life of course
Reply to Jack: U pose an actual problem. The gravity is too high fo us to live there. Especially after spending so many years in a gravityless space shuttle. Perhaps over time our bodys would adapt but it would pose a great problem at first.
how many years can get there?
Jason, There is no scientific evidence to show that we use only 10 percent of our brain.
it would take 20 light years to reach this planet so thats it takes 90 years to travel 30 light years so you do the math
btw NEX…you just plain RUDE k thanks bye
pls i wanna be the first human to go to Gliese 581g
..we can live in the new planet??
bla bla even if it was possible for us to re inhabit this planet we are garanteed to f**k it up just like this one humans are too greedy always taking more than we needed. always wanting more and fighting toget it. our world wouldnt be so bad to the point of having too find new ones if we werent so greedy.
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The planet appears 20 years younger than it truly is to us. (the planet is 20 “light years” away)
The argument of the space shuttle is ludicrous. The craft is an orbiter and not capable of even going to mars much less outside our solar system.
Our best bet right now would be to send a highly concentrated signal over a period of a few days. If the send/reply signals were instant it would take only 40 years. This is assuming that if there is life, it is intelligent.
You are a fuzzybottom