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Have They Found Krypton?

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Kepler 438b is the most Earth-like planet yet discovered, according to astronomers. 

At 12% larger than Earth, the new claimant is bigger than 186f but it is closer to our temperature, probably receiving just 40% more heat from its sun than we do from ours.

So if we could stand on the surface of 438b it may well be warmer than here, according to Dr Doug Caldwell from the Seti (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute in California.

"And it's around a cooler [red dwarf] star… so your sky would look redder than ours does to us," Dr Caldwell said.

An alien planet like Earth, that could support human-like beings, around a red star…. let's keep watching to see it it blows up and sends a small baby-carrying space shuttle in or general direction…

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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