Earth-like planet in our solar system

HARPS (High Accuracy Radial Velocity for Planetary Searcher) on the ESO 3.6m telescope in Chile has discovered an Earth-like exoplanet roughly 50% larger than Earth and capable of having liquid water. It completes a full orbit in 13 days, and though it is 14 times closer to its sun than Earth is to ours, its sun is smaller and colder than ours. It is estimated that the mean temperature of the planet is between 0 and 40 degrees Celsius.

Now we just need spaceships and we can go make some alien friends, come on guys! I hope they're Greys!

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