Discovery of new planet similar to Earth

From the ESA

An international team of astronomers has discovered a planet more similar to Earth than any found to date. This groundbreaking discovery of a new extra solar planet, or exoplanet has been made by scientists searching for Earth-like planets capable of supporting life.

www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMDJ3NZCIE_index_0.html

That's a really good animation! Thanks for the post.
Dave

reminds me of the extra-solar planet that Leo Enright was talking about at a lecture one night. He mentioned that very high traces of sodium were detected in it's atmosphere, to which I replied, "Congratulations. They've just found the most light-polluted planet in the Universe!"

That's a nice piece of video alright...
I really think it's amazing that they can fnd planets in this manner- hopefully they will find methods of learning more about them in the future.