Astronomers said that, We could find Earth-like planets in the space soon

Astronomers say they are on the verge of finding planets, as Earth orbiting other stars, a key step to determine if we are alone in general.

NASA's top official, and other leading scientists say that four or five years they have been detected before the Earth as a planet where life could develop, or perhaps already has. Close to the size of planet Earth might even find some this year if the initial recommendations of a new space telescope pan out.

At the annual American Astronomical Society conference this week, each discovery includes a so-called "exoplanets" - which is outside our solar system - pointed to the same conclusion: Quiet planets, the Earth, where life could possibly have developed a lot, despite the violent universe of exploding stars crushing black holes and galactic collisions.

New NASA's Kepler telescope and a lot of new research from the suddenly hot and competitive field of exoplanet raises considerable buzz on the convention. Scientists talk about it "incredibly special place in history" and closer to answering the question that haunted humanity since the beginning of civilization.

"The fundamental question is: Are we alone? In July, the first time, there is optimism that sometimes in our lifetime we will be able to get to the bottom," said Simon "Pete" worden, an astronomer who headed NASA's Ames Research Center. "If I were betting man, I am who I am but we're not only - there is lots of life."

Even the Roman Catholic Church has held a scientific conference on the prospect of extraterrestrial life, including a meeting last November.

"These are big questions, to reflect on the meaning of the universe the human race" Director of the Vatican Observatory, the Rev. Mr. Jose Funes, said on Wednesday in an interview at this week's conference.

Worden told Associated Press: "I certainly expect the next four or five years, we would like to be Earth-sized planets habitable zone."


Worden's Center operates Kepler telescope, which makes intense planetary census of a small part of the galaxy.

Unlike the Hubble Space Telescope, which is a universal instrument, Kepler telescope is directed only to the planet-hunting. Its only instrument is a light meter that measures the brightness of more than 100,000 stars while looking for something that causes the star dim. This dimming is often a planet passes in front of a star.

Any planets that could support life would almost certainly be rocky rather than gaseous. And it would be just the right location. Planets too close to the star will be too hot, and they are too far is too cold.

"Every rock we turn over, we find the planet," said Ohio State University astronomer Scott Gaudi. "It occurs in all types of environments, all the type of place."

Researchers are finding exoplanets at dizzying pace. In 1990, astronomers found a planet a few years. For most of the last ten years, it was up to a couple of planets per month.

This year, the planet is found on a daily basis, thanks to Kepler telescope. Number of exoplanets discovered is now well past 400th But none of these components have the right to life.

This is a change, say experts.

"From Kepler, we have strong indications to smaller planets in large numbers, but they have not been tested yet," said Geoff Marcy of California at Berkeley University. He is one of the founders of the field of planet hunting and Kepler scientist.

But a large protest. Most already exoplanet candidates discovered Kepler approached to be something other than a planet, like the stars through telescope view of the double and triple checked, "said Kepler top scientist Bill Borucki.

Kepler is concentrating on about 1/400th of the night sky, scanning more than 100,000 stars, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand light years away. Light year is of 5.9 trillion miles. Thus, these planets are too far away to travel to, and they can look just like our solar system planets.

If it were Earth-and body zone Kepler wanted to find a telescope, Marcy said. But it may take three years to confirm the planet's orbit.

The Kepler Telescope: Planet-hunting telescope from NASA unearths hot Mysteries

New Planet NASA's-hunting telescope has found two puzzling things that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.

The Kepler Telescope, launched in March discovered two new himneska body, which circa ling his own star. Telescope chief scientist Bill Borucki at NASA says the shares are thousands of degrees hotter than the stars they circle. That means they are probably not planet. They are bigger and hotter than planets in our solar system, including Dwarf planets.

"The Universe, but the strange things stranger than we can think of in our imagination," said Jon Morse, head of Astro-physics for NASA.

The new findings do not quite fit into any definition known Astronomical objects, and so far have not indexing their own. Information on the mystery objects were presented Monday at a meeting of American Astronomical Society in Washington.

For now, NASA research Jason Rowe, who found the items, he said, calling them "hot companions."

How hot? Try 26,000 degrees Fahrenheit. It is hot enough to melt lead and iron.

There are two main theories about how things could be and the theories cover both ends of Cosmic life cycle:

Rowe suggests that they are newly born planet. New planets have very high temperatures, and in this case, Rowe speculates they could be only about 200 million years old.

Ronald Gilli Land of the Space Telescope Science Institute said that they could be white dwarf stars that are dying and stripping of the outer shell and shrink.

The main focus of three of Kepler telescope is year project is to find out how common other planets - especially Earth-like planets - in the universe are. To do so, it is scanning a small chunk of heaven, one four-hundredth the night sky with more than 150,000 stars to search for planets.

The telescope in only six weeks, found the first five confirmed planets, slightly more than astronomers expected of the quick search. There are hundreds of other applicants who require confirmation.

Five planets are much larger than Earth, much closer to their stars than Earth is to the sun, and far too hot for life, Borucki said. A couple of these planets are close to 3000 degrees.

"If we look at them is like looking at Blast Furnace," Borucki said. "Of course, no place to look for life."

One newly discovered planet is so Airy that "it has density Styrofoam," Borucki said.

"It is going to be all kinds of weird stuff out there," said Alan Boss of Carnegie Institution in Washington, who was not part of the research. "This is óviðjafnanlega data set. Universe really is amazing place. It is fantastic."