A Habitable Super Earth? Scientists Seem To Think So

It’s a first in humanities search for other, habitable planets.

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00:00When looking for habitable planets there are a couple of things necessary for life to survive

00:07there. Things like atmosphere, ideally with oxygen, it has to be in a certain range of a

00:11heat-providing star, and it needs water. And for the first time ever astronomers think they've

00:16finally found a super-Earth exoplanet that has all three. Angelo Ciaris, an astronomer and lead

00:21author of the report, said in a press conference, this is the only planet right now that we know

00:25outside the solar system that has the correct temperature to support water. It has an atmosphere,

00:29and it has water in it, making this planet the best candidate for habitability that we

00:33know right now. They're calling it K2-18b, and it's 110 light-years away, tucked in the

00:39Leo constellation. It orbits a red dwarf star that's about a third our sun's mass, meaning

00:43it has shorter years, orbiting in just 33 days. But K2-18b is big, roughly eight times the size

00:50of Earth, and made of similar compounds as the Moon and Mars, which astronomers say because

00:54of the detection of water could mean an ocean covers its entire planetary surface.

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