For many centuries we have viewed the cosmos with telescopes.  And more recently, super powerful telescopes such as The Hubble have enabled us to find objects billions of light years away.  Now, the focus of much astronomy is finding earth-like planets.  What is the purpose and will they succeed?

The search for Earth-like planets is reaching a fever-pitch. Does the evidence so far help shed light on the ancient question: Is the galaxy filled with life, or is Earth just a beautiful, lonely aberration? If things dont work out on this planet Or if our itch to explore becomes unbearable at some point in the future Astronomers have recently found out what kind of galactic real estate might be available to us. Well have to develop advanced transport to land there, 20 light years away. The question right now: is it worth the trip?

Let’s find out how they plan on finding other planets similar to earth in the video on page 2

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