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OH MY GOD our world might end BUT we might have found a planet with NEW LIFE!
Gliese 581 is a Red Dwarf star roughly 20 light years away from us and scientists have found that one of it's 4 planets is very close to where we are in relation to our sun or Gliese 581 in this case. Now this means that it's in the 'Goldielocks zone' which is the PERFECT place for life to exist whatever that life may consist of. Even though this new planet Gliese 581d is at the colder end of the 'Goldielocks zone' a scientific study has shown that the atmosphere is has MIGHT be warm enough for the planet to sustain water.
One of the problems with this planet is just how far away it is,
20 Light years.
That might not sound like a lot but if you think that light travels at around 299 792 458 m / s (Which is pretty fast) it would take something travelling at the speed of light 20 YEARS to get to Gliese 581d.
Just to give you a view of how fast and far that is it would take something travelling at the speed of light about 1.3 seconds to go from the moon to us whereas it took Apollo 11 3 days, 3 hours, 49 minutes to get there.
The more you know,
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