NASA has found 7 earth sized planets around a single star outside our solar system!

[Ganoncrotch]

ps3-sales! said:

Ganoncrotch said:
Pretty cool that they're just 40 light years away, still means that the majority of this forums users (myself included) cannot be seen from this planet even if they had magnification great enough for the feat to be possible, they would just be watching the Earth before we were born.

That's absolutely mindblowing when you actually think about it.

It's cool to think that if you were to jump say... for me it would be just over 33 light years from Earth and have a powerful enough zoom to look back at earth right there... I would be watching the light that left the planet as my parents were taking me home from the hospital.

Light... it's like time travel in a way, it just goes out there forever, capturing moments forever if you could just find the right waves of light that contained your whole life you could watch any part of your past.