New "Godzilla" Planet is 17 times 
heavier than Earth
 
   
 

 
 

                                                                                                   photo credit: Mach by Hong Leong Bank
 
   
The NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered a planet at just the right distance from another star, also knows as the "comfort Zone". Similar to Earth, Not to hot and not to cold, supporting an environment for liquid water and maybe even life itself scientists announced.

The planet is about 2.4 times the radius of Earth and has a year lasting about 290 days. Researchers are yet to find out its mass, density and composition before declaring the planet Earth-like.

The new discovery, named Kepler-22b will be observed by astronomers using a ground-based telescopes to determine the planet's composition, density. With this information, astronomers can paint a better picture of this planet and any life it may hold. 
Kepler-22b orbits a G-type star 600 light years from Earth. 
"We're certain that is in the habitable zone, it's not at the edge. And it if it has a surface, it ought to have a nice temperature," Borucki said.
"It's right in the middle of this habitable zone, right next to Earth," said Natalie Batalha, the deputy leader of the Kepler science team at Ames. "The other thing that's really exciting is it's orbiting a star very much like our own sun."

Jill Tarter, The director of the Center for SETI Research, said astronomers will point radio telescopes toward planets discovered by Kepler and listen for evidence of intelligent life.
The SETI Institute is a non-profit organization that scientifically addresses the question of the origin, nature, and prevalence of life beyond Earth. SETI stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.

"My team is interested in using the Kepler data to find true Earth analogs," Tarter said. "We will give a higher priority to those worlds that our colleagues tell us at not too warm, not too cold, but just right."

Launched in March 2009, Kepler is stationed in an Earth-trailing solar orbit and aims its 3.1-foot telescope toward constellations Cygnus and Lyra, observing a 10-degree-wide field containing 4.5 million detectable stars. Kepler is focusing on approximately 156,000 stars for the purposes of its research.

Did you really believe we are the only habitat planet out there? nahh plenty of other worlds we can pollute, over-populate, destroy and wage useless wars right? Lets just hope we cant get there and other life forms that may be occupying these worlds, care more about their planet as to not "destroy" and fuck things up!