NASA astronomer finds first EARTH-SIZED planet in habitable zone. Pack yer bags.

Pack your bags! Once we can conquer the impossible and traffic faster than light, we’ve found our first stop. Motherfuckin’ Earth-sized planet has been spotted in the “juicy space spot”, where planets thrive. I’m just spit balling. I don’t really know what I’m talking about. Too busy fingering my ass in public and screaming “you’ll never find me where I’m going!” while wearing my NASA space suit.

The search for a new Earth outside the solar system seems to be nearing its end. NASA’s Ames Research Center astronomer Thomas Barclay has found a planet nearly the size of Earth in the habitable zone of a star in the Milky Way.

Barclay’s announcement at the Search for Life Beyond the Solar System conference hasn’t been officially published yet, so the details are scarce. We know that:

1. It’s an M1 red dwarf star (maybe we should call it Krypton.)

2. It’s a goldilocks planet, orbiting within the zone where liquid water (and life) can exist.

3. It’s radius is only 1.1 times the size of Earth. Until now the minimum size for a new Earth candidate was 1.4 times—Kepler-62f, which orbits a star about 1,200 light years away from us.

4. At least five other planets are orbiting this red dwarf. [Gizmodo]