thought was the perfect size and depth to support life, but now they can't find any trace of the goldilocks planethere did it go? >> it's crying in the cereal. >> and richard branson is probably very upset, too. >> right, that he can't buy this planet. >> so why would scientists not be able to find it? >> we're talking about the so-called xo planet. there have been fewer than 500 of these discovered so far. but they're looking at this possible goldilocks planet. that means not too close, not at that too far, not too hot, not too cold. possibly perfect for the ingredients of life. this is very difficult research we're talking about. this is meticulous and painstaking stuff. they're looking at imagery coming from 20 light years away, trying to pick out these objects. they came across this one object and they weren't too sure. i'll give you a quick demonstration of how hard this stuff is to measure. i have some props. now, this flashlight is meant to illustrate the star. so it's bright. now you have to imagine a fire fly that's circling around this star. you have to spot that fire fly and measure it

are we going to get more goldilocks planets? did the statistical prospect just improve? >> i think it did improve. now we've been able to identify clearly there is a habitable zone around the stars. within that zone, it is possible to find planets that are getting closer to the size and mass of earth. that's the other important piece. >> there are people on this planet who believe as a species we're unique and alone in the universe and deliberately placed here. the arguments begin over who, what, when and for what purpose. what discovery does that mean for those people? is it significant enough to say, we have more facts to throw at you? >> the people who choose to go in that direction of believing in a supreme being that created this one planet with this life as being unique may have to expand their thinking about what their supreme being is really capable of. imagine that as a supreme being, you create this entire universe. would you create just one planet alone out of the billions of stars and possible tens of billion of other planets? you could experiment with differe

as for the climate, it's sort of like what they call a goldilocks planet. it's not too cold or too hot, it's just right. it would take us 220 years to get there if we left right now. >> got to go. >> some life at the ballpark, though. in honor of the giants for just one game away from clenching tonight's good question. where did the name bullpen come from? [ male announcer ] sacramento and silicon valley are only one hundred thirty miles apart. they may as well be on different planets. sacramento, mismanaged, ineffective. silicon valley gave us apple, intel, ebay. here meg whitman started with 30 people. led them. managed them. executed the plan that grew this main street company to fifteen thousand employees and made small business dreams come true. to change california let's send meg whitman up the road... about a hundred and thirty miles. baseball fever rising in the bay area as we speak, so here is a little trivia for you tonight. somebody wants to know, where did the name bullpen originate in baseball? that's tonight's good question. >> and a shot into

the so-called goldilocks planet is 20 light-years from earth with the potential to sustain life.alk to an astronomer who worked on the project. more coming up. i hope you join us, see you then. >>> congress is doing something great by doing nothing at all. kind of. wall street seeing its best september in 71 years as gridlock between republicans and democrats brings d.c. to a screeching halt. tracy you say the city going to get better from here, why? >> the republicans sweep as they are expected to in november there is expected to be more gridlock. d.c. is the only place where gridlock is good. there's so much uncertainty on the sidelines no one knows what to do with their money. they don't know what to do with it. give me gridlock, tell mekong res going do get rid of anti-business rhetoric for a while i might start putting my money back in. then you will see the volume increase and that can continue to keep it going. >> jonathan she is saying gridlock. there's not other market forces here at work? it is not excepting -- something else helping the market? >> my two cents is if --

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it has been nicknamed the goldilocks planet because it is not too hot and not too cold. tell us more about this discovery an astronomer with the carnegie institution. author of the search for living planets. great to have you here today this is an exciting discovery. i'm a huge space enthusist. but the fact that you believe we have a planet that can sustain life at this point and could have liquid water. tell us about this. >> the plan was just discover add announced this week. the sixth planet in the system so the planet has a range of planets the system has roughly 66 planets some twice the mass of earth some as large as 16 times. the new one just found the right distance to have liquid water roughly three, four times the mass of the earth. we don't know for sure it is rocky, most likely it is. since it is the right distance which can have liquid water probably can have rain which is wonderful. we know rain$9,q is important r life. this is the first time after hundreds of plan s found so far the right distance to have liquid water. >> uma: this land net is 20 light-ye

me explain some of this space exploration astronomer lingo for is what does it mean to be a goldilocks planet well there's a strange lingo it means it's just right not too hot not too warm of the temperature is plus ten degrees fahrenheit and cold it goes down to minus ten they've been saying that's like a summer day in antarctica and there's plenty of life for man to autograph and so it has the right gravity and when we say supporting it could support life we mean life like us organic molecules we found planets before that could support life but it would be a strange life we have trouble understanding this could be something that has water it would have the right could. have protoplasm is a molecular small so you would organisms or who knows what it could have and it's only twenty light years away and it means that it could inspire a generation not today but the next generation of robotic missions to just send some things there and you know they've already gotten the honeymooners and all those other things drifting out the signals for years but if you know if we send something this would be

it's been very lonely being the only intelligent communicative species. >> this goldilocks planet hasperature reading potentially of negative 24 degrees fahrenheit up to 10 degrees fahrenhe fahrenheit. that's not exactly sustainable for human life. >> here's the deal. that's the case for the entire planet -- i'm a science reporter so i walk around with planets in my pocket. this is in lock with its star. it goes around this way with the same face facing that star. >> i see, there's no axis upon which it's turning. >> yeah, it doesn't turn. that means that there is a zone right here where it's very temperate climate. because it's in lock, that zone will stay that way for a long time and the star can be very old. lots of chance for evolution to take place. the polar bears and the penguins of that planet could migrate to the cold side and the tropical fish to the hot side. you could have an ecosystem in this other goldilocks zone right here on the planet. glees 581-g is its name. >> so cool. come talk to us more about it. >> thanks, alex. >>> we hear the recession is over, but with so ma

it's called the goldilocks planet. too far from nor too close to the sun but just right in order to support life. the team studying the new world includes local scientist. we explain why there might be alien life there. >> this is an artist rendering of new planet about the size of earth existing in a solar system smaller and tighter than ours. planet circle a star tantamount to our sun called glooes 5 81 and sitting pretty in what astronomers call the habitable zone. not too hot or not too cold. >> this is really the first planet that is roughly the right size and just at the right distance to have liquid water on the surface. >>reporter: liquid water of course is the key to life. still we can't be sure yet it is there. the team who discovered the planet include a sign activist from uc santa cruz. dr. steven vote says the planet does not rotate. the bright side can be as hot as 160 degrees. the dark side as cold as 25 degrees below zero. and there's a sweet spot in the middle. >> so there's a great range of eco-longit

but as for the climate, sort of like goldilocks' planet. the weather not too hot, not too cold, just right. let's go on vacation. although it's considered our cosmic neighbor, if we left right now, a rocket ship would get us there in 220 years. >> but would we be younger when we got there? >> i don't think so. [ laughter ] >> not fast enough. >> some areas here in the bay area are just right! >> just right! >> don't you think? today we came down substantially in our temperatures anywhere from 62 degrees in half moon bay and in san francisco to 93 degrees in livermore out of the triple digits and look at that. is that glorious? guess where this is. wrong. [ laughter ] >> it is lake tahoe area where tomorrow it will be partly sunny and 76 degrees. and compare that with this. it is currently 80 degrees in vacaville. look at the wall-to-wall sunshine there. compare that with this. coit tower, under overcast skies currently 59 degrees. and because of the return of the vigorous marine layer, numbers went down substantially today. 58 degrees to 63

it is called exactly that -- the goldilocks zone. >> if you have planets and the goldilocks the zonehere the temperature is right and there are millions of these kinds of objects, then it seems unlikely that we are the only place in the universe where there is life. >> this raises the possibility that planets like earth may be common in our galaxy may be teeming with life. >> now, whisky and pastis combined with exercise seems to be the ideal recipe for long life, according to two french sisters who have been confirmed as the oldest living twins. >> identical twins, 98 years apiece, are not looking at day over 75. born in 1912, their first memory is their father leaving for the first world war. today, they share a house near the sea in southwest france, still bent on living life to the full. >> the joie the vivre. >> we love dancing, cards, and we have huge numbers of friends. that is the marvelous thing. buttoday it's tarot cards, they still go dancing. and until a few years ago, they swam in the sea. age 70, 's daughter, says her mother and autnt always played sports. her mother pl

astronomers are calling the discovery a goldilocks planet. not too cold, not too hot.d just 120 trillion miles away. joining us from philadelphia, derrick pitts from the science museum. maybe just right. to use another metaphor, you say it gets one step closer to the holy grail which is -- >> the hoe ly grail finding lif somewhere else in the universe. >> how possible is it? what do we know about the plan sunset could the conditions be ripe for life? >> so christine, let's do this first. first thing we have to say is probably of finding life somewhere else seems high with the number of stars and planets throughout the universe. we finally found a place that's closer to earth in its size and its composition than any of the other places we found and we even figure there's a band of hab it about. right around that middle, could be liquid water. >> the front side of the planet faces its star. and so, one side is warm. one side is probably cold. you think the middle line is find life adapted to that zone? >> right. so this is the issue about this. when we look at the planet

planet. it is in what's called the goldilocks zone which means the planet is far enough from the red dwarf star it's noting that it could contain -- orbiting that it could contain water. >> the truly exciting thing about this discovery is that the star is so nearby and we found it relatively quickly in the scheme of things. so this suggests a potentially habitable planets are very, very common. >> that astronomer r. paul butler works with the carnegie institution of washington. a mission to the new planet would be tough. it would take several generations for a spaceship to get there. >>> a surprising revelation tonight on the news edge at 11:00. the holocaust museum shooter had big plans that could have shaken the political landscape. >>> one of president obama's top men was also in his sights. still ahead. >> reporter: maryland's first casino is open and it's already crowded. >>> and congress working to turn down the volume on your tv. the news edge in about 19 minutes. my dad is the supervisor of a train station and my mom's a teacher. my dad's an auto technician. my mom's a receptionist. i'm

. >> two astronomers found a new erltd-like planet that could sustain human life. it is in the goldilockse. it is far enough away from the red tbarve dwarf star that it is orbiting that it could contain water. >> people have been getting closer and closer. they have been finding plan oats the hot edge of the habitable zone and on the cold edge and we have one right in the middle swra. that astronomer works at the carnegie institution of washington. a mission to the new planet would be tough though t would take several generation ifs a space ship to even get there. many critics have expressed caution over the new planets. the planet's density, atmosphere and composition are still uncertain but fascinating to find something like that. >>> we have a couple of films that are out right now coming out this weekend that are get a lot of buzz. one is the social network, all about facebook and how facebook started. >>> also waiting for super man, we talked about this one. the documentary which takes a close look at the nation's education system. we'll talk about this and more coming up. >>> do the

the planet is bigger than the earth, has rocky terrain, but so far no signs of water or life. but as for the climate, well, it's sort of like goldilocks, they say, where the weather is not too hot, not to cold, it's juuust right. and although it's considered our cozmic neighbor if we left right now, on a rocket ship, we would probably get there in 220 years. >> everybody was talking about that on twitter the talk of twitter. >> a new planet. >> i can't get ahold of our own planet. >> it's been changing especially in the immediate bay area. we cooled down substantially today. in fact, take this scene in right now in san jose. wall-to-wall sunshine, wind cleared out the atmosphere. look at this. it's the low clouds and the patchy fog in the form of a marine layer that's now pouring in over coit tower. 60 degrees in san francisco. pleasanton still at 90. morgan hill, santa clara valley, 86 degrees. sonoma 79. san mateo around the peninsula clear skies, 17 degrees. notice the winds are slight. if you are going to be out and about on this thursday evening, the fog will be pouring in a little bit later around the bay. otherwise, we do have