My eyes stung with dry pain, and I rubbed them with my palms, trying to massage the last

bit of moisture into them from the inside of my eyelids.

Like bringing out a sponge that's been sitting in the desert sun, there was little benefit.

Still, I continued to stare at the computer screen in my home office, waiting for the

final calculations to finish.

If I was right about this, the dark silhouette of a planet I'd been staring at for the last

two days really was capable of harbing life, maybe even intelligent life.

The thought seems real and dreamlike, further evidence of my exhausted state, it couldn't

really be happening, it just wasn't possible.

Was it?

A second later, and the status bar showed complete, and the calculations were finally done.

I began to read through the results, showing temperature variations and percentages of various

compounds, reading down from the top, my heart began to hammer faster and faster in my chest.

Nitrogen 78% Oxygen 20.9% Argon 0.9% Carbon dioxide 0.03%

Additional gases see further breakdown below 0.17%.

Median temperature 58.43 degrees Fahrenheit It was impossible.

The composition of the atmosphere, the temperature, the size of the planet and its proximity

to its star, was just so happened to be a G-type yellow dwarf main sequence star.

All of these features, they were identical to Earth, which meant I discovered the one

planet every astronomer had dreamed of finding.

The unicorn, the Goldilocks, the twin to our one of a kind blue speck in the middle

of the impossibly vast ocean that is space.

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