Inhabited Planet Discovered by Kepler - 22B

There is good news for people those who already feel bored living on earth and planned migration to another planet, the article of the recent NASA space telescope, Kepler, has confirmed the existence of the first planet in a habitable zone beyond our solar system.

The planet orbits the star in 290 days, at a distance 15% closer than the Earth is from the Sun.

It lies right in the centre of the star's habitable zone, where potentially perfect conditions exist for life.  The planet was spotted after making a "transit" across the front of its parent star, causing the star's brightness to dip.

Inhabited Planet (Image Credit:NASA)

French astronomers confirmed earlier this year the first planet outside the essential requirements for sustaining life, known as Gliese 581d.

However, Kepler 22b, previously seen briefly in 2009 was the first confirmation of the U.S.space agency NASA on the planet uninhabitable.

That means that astronomers have been three times to see the planet passing in front of its star."We were lucky to be able to detect the planet," said William Borucki, Kepler principal investigator at NASA Ames Research Center, Monday (5 / 12).

"Transit first caught just three days after we announced the spacecraft that is operationally ready. We saw a decisive third transit in the 2010 holiday season," he said.

Kepler-22b are within 600 light years and larger than the Earth with a 290-day orbit around a star like the sun.

Kepler has found another potential planet 1000, twice the amount previously tracked.