WASHINGTON — Astronomers have spotted a new planet right next to Mars. And it looks identical to earth!
Astronomers have found a new planet that is identical to Earth – and it’s close by, between the Moon and Mars. This discovery has stunned the world of astronomy and astrophysics. “We all missed it. It was always there, right in front of our eyes,” say NASA astronomer Vijay Bannerjee.
“We can’t believe we’ve never seen the planet before,” said astronomer J, P. Thompson o the Carnegie Institute in Washington. “It’s right there, next to Mars. And it’s just like us. It can sustain life. We have a new Earth!”
Astronomers at the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory simply had this to say: “D’oh!”
The new planet looks identical to Earth. “it’s like we are looking at Earth, from Earth,” said Thompson. “It’s an exact duplicate. I wonder if there’s a guy on Goldilocks that looks like me that is looking through a telescope at me and thinking the same thing. Wild, man, wild!”
Astronomers named the new planet, “Goldilocks” because in the story of Goldilocks and The Three Bears, Goldilocks fell asleep in the bear’s house, and astronomers have fallen asleep for centuries – completetly missing the obvious.
“I could have told them there was another planet. I could see it from my porch on the lake. It’s right there, between the Moon and Mars. Looks just like us,” said Hank Pauley of Auckland, New Zealand.
The Goldilocks planet, which is only about 2 million miles from Earth, is “not too cold and not too hot, ” said Bannerjee. “It definitely contains liquid water and it has a proper surface, gravity and atmosphere.
Finding Goldilocks has put an end to the age-old question: Are we alone? The answer: No, we are not alone, and we can’t believe it’s taken us so long to figure it out. “Maybe all the telescopes were defective,” said Bannerjee.
“This is the first one I’m truly excited about,” said Penn State University’s Art Waring. He said this planet is a “prime candidate” for harboring life. “I’m already packing my bags. I can’t wait to buy some property along the “California coast” on the new planet.”
Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic is already planning one-way trips to Goldilocks. “Once you get there, there’ll be no reason to leave, ” said Branson.
“Man, I hope there’s some hot chicks on that planet,” said Taylor Cooper, an astronaut on the last Discovery mission. “After determining that there’s life on a planet, that’s always the second question.” Juliana Rigaux, another astronaut added, “there better be some studs on that planet, too.”
Astronauts have come under fire for not noticing the Earth-like planet when they were in outer-space. But Buzz Aldrin had this to say though, “I told Neil, I thought I saw a second Earth and he told me to stop dipping into the Scotch. But I was right. Dammit, I was right!”
Buzz plans to visit Goldilocks as soon as he can.
Conspiracy theorists are saying that it’s all a hoax. “There are no planets. We live in a void, a black hole,” said Martin Q. “This is all a government conspiracy to give us hope. There is no hope.”
Tell that to Goldilocks.
WRONG! Its in a whole other galaxy idiot!
You guys are on drugs!
You guys are on crack! Say no to drugs!!
You guys are on crack! Say no to drugs!
There has to be life on this new planet
This is legit news- you guys added some humor to it. It originally debuted on Yahoo news.
an article like this was on the onion. you're lettin us down, world weekly.
Governments are always trying to hide the good news. With the discovery of a twin planet, all real state values (and taxes) instantly drop by 50%. That's why they will say this is a hoax, but it's true! Don't pay more than 50% of your taxes from now on!
If Goldilocks truely is identical to Earth, that would mean it has humans on it. Wouldn't Branson's little trips to it cause a war of the worlds.
This New planet sounds very interesting to me, I'm so ready to get off earth and explore. Never did I have thought there wasn't a planet just like our's woundering around the galexy. Maybe our world is coming to an end, we wouldn't know but, I know one thing, this new planet was sent to save us humans and keep our cycle of making babies go on and on. Let us greet this new planet with love and if there is any type of Alien like on it, please reason with it bc it's not really our planet.
Let's just see and wait for further investigation and studies. Hoping that the astronomers could be prepared and be aware of this Earth-like planet would not only be helping us for survival, but can also harm us?
That isn't a second Earth. It is a temporal anamoly.
if you think it is a second earth and it is so close to to it and see if it has humans!!!
why this planet discover late?????????? why scientist didn't see this before?????? is this our new home if our own planet destroy???????????
This planet was not discovered late because there was no planet between mars and earth, these are all fooolishness and hoax!
Why was this discovered late when astronomers go to other planets???
I also suggest that we should check if there are humans in it to avoid wars…
I also suggest that we should not leave earth yet because there might be something wrong with the planet "goldilocks" even though its almost like earth (no offense)…..
there should be someone or some living thing that is on this planet because there's water and oxygen…. maybe this planet has humans and i disagree that its the 2nd earth i have a reason why but i forgot im so sorry and could the sun even reach it because we can't live with mars cuz it won't give us light so…. i guess that we should wait for more answers if its safe and we could live here…. I hope that this planet can help us survive when the earth comes to an end… =) =I =( thanks for reading = >
Is this a joke? How come that astronomers didn't notice or see this planet at about a century? Who are vthey sleeping Beauties? Even this planet never have a solar eclipse with the earth! What?! The orbit of this planet is crossing upsidedown the orbits of the other 8 planets! Haha! Foolishness!
Is this a joke? How come that astronomers didn't notice or see this planet at about a century? Who are them, sleeping Beauties? Even this planet so called Goldilocks never have a solar eclipse with the earth! What?! The orbit of this planet is crossing upsidedown the orbits of the other 8 planets! Haha! Foolishness!
Is this a joke? How come that astronomers didn't notice or see this planet at about a century? Who are them…Sleeping Beauties? Even this planet never have a solar eclipse with the earth! What?! The orbit of this planet is crossing upsidedown the orbits of the other 8 planets! Haha! Foolishness!
I have seen that photo of that said planet named Goldilocks from space.com, it's an exoplanet and it's not in our galaxy for your info guys! What was in between Mars and /earth is Goldilocks Zone not Goldilocks Planet!. All i can say is you guys behind this Goldilocks matter are good in picture editing, good graphic artist ha! So who you're foooling guys?!
All i can say is you guys are on drugs! Instead of it, just smoke weed and you will imagine more exoplanet and more earths in your heads!
were hoping the newest investigation about the planet goldilocks
If this is true why is it not big news and being published on updates regularly on progress to get there???
maybe if we get answers we could live in ther
maybe we could live in that planet if its save
fss that is dumb camell toeee !!!!
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Do it have a country like earth and if it have can we named it?
i'd like to start anew
Guess its down to the battle of the resources , they run out they come here , we run out we go there either way, we are going to cross paths with whatever is on this new planet
I wonder how more than 6b people will be carried by rockets
hope there's no politician in that planet..