Planet Earth's twin

For fans of adventure, travel and discover new places you may be able to travel in the future, but this time out of the galaxy. It will announce astrophysicists at the European Southern Observatory at the end of August the discovery of a new planet twin of the Earth outside our solar system in orbit around a star Centaur (Proxima Centauri), which is closest to the solar system's star.

And he confirmed the magazine "Der Spiegel" the German edition of the Sabbath, that the new planet, which does not carry any name will be in the good of life scale, and thus "may include liquid water," What is an important condition for the existence of life.

Space scientists did not discover days brother planet so close to the Earth at a distance of no more than 4.24 light years.

The spokesman for the observatory to Richard hook that he has reviewed the article in the German newspaper, but he refused to confirm or deny his information, saying "make no comments."

A scientist in astrophysics for the magazine, on condition of anonymity, "This finding astronomer offense was hard work too," he said. "We arrived at the limits of what can be measured technically."

And it announced the US space agency (NASA) in about the discovery of a planet before outside our solar system similar to Earth but too far as it is located 1,400 light-years away, knowing that the light-year one is the distance light travels in a year, which is equal to about 10 billion kilometers.