A Habitable Exoplanet?!

[Urbane Guerrilla]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...ble-exoplanet/

Tidally locked with its primary, Gliese 581, Gliese 581g has a 36-earthday year and three times Earth's mass and is right in the Goldilocks zone.

“The fact that we found one so close and so early on in the search suggests there’s a lot of these things,” Butler says. Only about 100 other stars are as close to Earth as Gliese 581, and only 9 of them have been closely examined for planets. Odds are good that 10 to 20 percent of stars in the Milky Way have habitable planets . . .

"And have the bright immensities received our risen Lord,
Where lightyears frame the Pleiades and point Orion's sword?"