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falkor

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HD 40307g is one of three newly found planets orbiting the same star

Astronomers have discovered a planet orbiting a nearby sun at just the right distance for an Earth-like climate that could support life.

The planet, which orbits a star 42 light years away, sits in the so-called Goldilocks Zone, the band around a sun where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist.

'The star HD 40307 is a perfectly quiet old dwarf star, so there is no reason why such a planet could not sustain an Earth-like climate,' said Guillem Angla-Escude from Germany's University of Goettingen.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ … z2C954V1gk

Quite impressive that University research can lead to discoveries like this but 42 light years? might as well be on the other side of the Universe!