Astronomers have found yet another sun. Well, actually another calling the spacial object a sun like star would be right. The star popularly known as HIP 56948, is a little more than 200 light years away from Earth. The observations of this star was made by the 2.7 meter telescope at the Mc Donald observatory in Texas, US. This is a good place to start off with extra terrestrial intelligence.
Sun’s twin would make a great hunting ground for alien life. Like they say, where there’s sun, there’s life. Sun like stars have been discovered and analyzed previously by astronomers and scientists from other disciplines as well. HIP 56948 is a better match to the sun than other sun like stars.
The only problem with this star is the fact that it is 200 light years away. Being that far, no signals could travel that distance from earth, making things difficult for astronomers and scientists.
The new star is about one billion years older than the Sun. As far as finding intelligent life source is concerned, I think it’s very rare. Why? Well, first of all it’s a mistake of nature. One thing that confuses me in the newscientist article is the word hunt for life. Hopefully they just used the word hunting in the sense of looking. Whatever it is, HIP 56948 is the new twin of sun.
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