THE TWIN EARTH

No not in my wildest dream another earth-like planet! Well stop dreaming its reality. i was watching discovery tv some time ago when i stumbled upon this revelation. But this was the question i asked, why did it take us this time to find out that the creator of the universe has something like this around us?
 It has become a fact that:

• A new planet that's the right size and location for life has been discovered 20 light-years away.
• The newly discovered world exists in a solar system very similar to our own but much smaller.
• Current technologies won't allow scientists to study the planet's atmosphere for chemical signs of life.
• A new member in a family of planets circling a red dwarf star 20 light-years away has just been found. It's called Gliese 581g, and the 'g' may very well stand for Goldilocks.
  Gliese 581g is the first world discovered beyond Earth that's the right size and location for life.
  "Personally, given the ubiquity and propensity of life to flourish wherever it can, I would say that the chances for life on this planet are 100 percent. I have almost no doubt about it," Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at University of California Santa Cruz
• Astronomers previously have found a Neptune-sized world circling Gliese 581, as well as strong evidence for a third planet about eight times the mass of Earth.
  The new planet, which is the smallest planet beyond our solar system found to date, circles its star 14 times closer than Earth orbits the sun. But because Gliese 581 is smaller and colder than our sun, the system's so-called habitability zone, where liquid water and thus life is possible, is closer to the mother star than in our solar system.
• Astronomers estimate the mean temperature of the newly discovered planet to be between 0 degrees and 104 degrees Fahrenheit.
  "Water would be liquid," notes lead researcher Stephane Udry with Switzerland's Geneva Observatory. "Models predict that the planet should be either rocky — like our Earth — or covered with oceans."
  The discovery likely will bolster efforts to find other Earth-like planets circling so-called red dwarf stars, which are the most common type of stars in our galaxy. Of the 100 closest stars to the sun, 80 are red dwarfs.