Posted

Sep 16th 2009

Mood

Forgive the shameless Star Wars Episode 3 pun.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090916/ap_on_sc/us_sci_rocky_planet

"It's hot, they're calling it the lava planet," Hatzes said.

This is a major discovery in the field of trying to find life elsewhere in the universe, said outside expert Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution. It was the buzz of a conference on finding an Earth-like planet outside our solar system, held in Barcelona, Spain, where the discovery was presented Wednesday morning. The find is also being published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.

"The evidence is becoming overwhelming that we live in a crowded universe," Boss said.