In contrast, the third Earth-like planet, Kepler 69c, orbits a star very similar to our sun (that is, hotter than Kepler 62).
Wall Street, then obsessed with theme restaurants like Planet Hollywood, urged Lee to come up with an acquisition or a new concept.
The closest Earth-like planet may be only 13 light years away.
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Mars is the only other earth-like planet in the known universe.
In a conference room, looking through a wall of glass into the Messenger mission-control center, Solomon described his fascination with the parched and moon-like planet, which is a sister of Earth.
Lying only 10 light years away in the equatorial constellation of Eridanus, it was already known to harbor at least one extra-solar Jupiter-like planet, which orbits the star roughly every 7 years.
In their paper, the co-authors argue that gravitational tidal heating caused by the gravitational friction of an earth-like exo-moon on an eccentric orbit around a Jupiter-like planet lying at a Jupiter-like distance from its parent star, could, in fact, create habitable conditions.
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Some researchers have already started thinking about how they might use instruments like the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope to detect alien moons.
But, based on the limited numbers of planets found so far, Dr Boss has estimated that each Sun-like star has on average one "Earth-like" planet.
In his 2009 book, Storms of my Grandchildren, he argues that the Earth could one day become like the planet Venus, where temperatures are warm enough to melt lead.
The results suggest that 17% of stars host a planet up to 1.25 times the size of the Earth, in close orbits lasting just 85 days or fewer - much like the planet Mercury.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
Astronomers using the Kepler telescope found the first known double-star planet just last September Kepler-16b, a gassy oddball orb the size of Saturn that circles a pair of stars 200 light-years from Earth, like the planet Tatooine in the "Star Wars" films.
It looks like something from another planet, dotted with flax bushes that grow triffid-like flowering spikes.
And no area looks more like the red planet than the crater.
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Their simulations included the effects of eclipses and tidal heating on climate for an earth-twin in orbit around a Jupiter-like gaseous giant planet.
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Greens and "smart growth" advocates will celebrate if money is diverted from hard infrastructure--such as improved roads, bridges, ports and transmission lines--which they insist would create enough carbon to heat the planet like a toaster.
Eight heads rose in a line on the track as a wave of sound and flash photography exploded around the stadium before crashing on to the most scrutinized piece of land on the planet like a tsunami.
Since the very first planets outside our solar system were discovered in the early 1990s, the hope has been to find an "Earth twin" - a planet like ours, orbiting a star like ours, at a distance like ours.
If you happen to be pilot on a trans-Atlantic flight, the consequences can be much more serious -- like mistaking the planet Venus for another plane and sending the plane you're piloting into a dive that slammed passengers into the ceiling and back to the floor.
The spectrum of the light reflected from the planet is Doppler-shifted because the planet, like the ambulance, is moving.
The ones who seemed to disappear off the face of the planet, like Macauly Culkin from Home Alone, and the men from Miami Vice?
That seems beyond foreign, almost like living on another planet.
This planet, like its one moon, is not geologically fragile.
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Something that kept the people on the planet going, like a magical green ooze.
"If the rest of the world were to eat like we do, the planet would collapse, " Roberts says.
Like every memoirist on the planet, it was de rigeur that I try to get into the Modern Love section.
And despite what some in Washington may think, they respond to pressure just like Americans--and like everyone else on the planet.
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