With the concerns for our planet’s well being running high there is considerable anxiety about what we humans will do if the Earth finally is unable to support the teeming billions who inhabit it. Naturally there was considerable excitement when astronomers discovered a new super Earth planet in the habitable area of the star Gliese.

The red dwarf star  has a exoplanet which is 6.9 times the size of the Earth, but which tends to have all the life supporting conditions that Earth has. the planet called Gliese 163c has an orbital period of 26 days. It is loacted 49 light years away from our Solar System.

Gliese 163c was discovered in the Dorado constellation orbiting the red dwarf star by astronomers working on the European Southersn Observatory HARPS telescope. the discovery gave scientists hope that there may be life sustained on the planet that is similar to what developed on Earth, although no signs of life have been seen so far.

Naturally shifting planets for the entire billion plus population of Earth to another planet is not something that can be undertaken right now, but in the future, who knows what will transpire.  Perhaps what seems like science fiction today may become scientific fact tomorrow.