Earth size planets

[alokmohan]

In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider range of Earth-size planets that astronomers might actually be able to find in the near future. <br /><br />Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.nl.html?pid=23585<br /><br />[Edited to repair link]<br />