Astronomer successfully predicts distant planet

This is particularly interesting.

Astronomer Rory Barnes at the University of Arizona has become the first to find a planet outside our solar system by predicting its location in advance.

That hasn’t happened since astronomers found Neptune in our own solar system in the year 1846. Barnes said more planets will be found orbiting distant stars as long as there’s room for them to form.

This certainly raises questions about not only the search and discovery of other planets, but the possibility of finding life on planets other than our own.

Full article: http://www.earthsky.org/radioshows/52174/astronomer-successfully-predicts-distant-planet

-Ryan