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Scientists managed to discover the most identical world to our Earth from ever found outside the solar system. However the distance to this planet, which was called Kepler-452b, is about 1400 light years. How much time does the earthly space take ship to fly there?
In recent months, astronomers have been incredibly happy about the discovery. exoplanet, which was unofficially named “Earth 2.0”. Kepler-452b is a rocky planet spinning on the same the distance from its parent star, like the Earth, is relatively our sun. Scientists suggest that on the surface of the habitable zones of this planet must exist water – the main condition for of life.
The only problem is that Kepler-452b is located really very far from our world. Today motor chemical fuel and rocket systems their engine components allow us to send space the ship to almost anywhere, but only within our Solar system. Even the new features of the NASA probe, which traveled last month to the Pluto system on impressive speeds of 31,000 miles per hour, do not give reason for optimism. For having to fly one light-year apart, NASA’s probe it will take about 2000 earth years. And to reach the exoplanet Kepler-452b, the probe will need approximately 28 million years.
Even the innovative development of NASA’s Evolutionary Specialists xenon engine (NEXT) will be able to accelerate the probe for flight through the solar system at a speed not exceeding 90,000 miles per hour, which will help reduce the travel time to this exoplanet only to 10.5 million years.
However, scientists are not discouraged. They are currently consider other possibilities, including the development of a huge the amount of energy produced at the time of direct interaction matter and anti-matter. Despite the fact that the production of one a milligram of antimatter will cost about $ 100 billion, according to theory of the motor system, based on this principle it is possible accelerate the spacecraft almost to the speed of light. But in this case, the trip to the exoplanet Kepler-452b will be about 2000 years old.
In any case, science does not stand still! Perhaps the fact that seems fiction today, tomorrow will be mundane reality.
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