This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good friend Bob Zimmerman behind the black.

About 40 light years out, the discovery of an Earth-like planet, a little smaller than Earth, Bobbick,

introduces us to Gleeza 12b around a red dwarf

with a temperature on the surface in excess of 100 degrees Fahrenheit about 107 Bob says. What's important

here is that we're looking for planets that can sustain life like ours and this might be one.

Gleeza 12b, 40 light years out, reachable when and if we get close to 10% of the speed of light.

Big future. get close to 10% of the speed of light.

Big future.

Here's Bob.

This is a red dwarf star, a very small star.

They're the most stars you find in the universe.

It's 40 light years away.

They have found an exoplanet that orbits it every 12 plus days.

It's very close to the star, but it is a very dim star. So therefore that Earth and it's

Earth sized. It's a little bit smaller than the Earth. It's kind of like between

Venus and the Earth. It's considered to have a temperature about 107

degrees Fahrenheit, which means it's kind of like between the Earth and

Venus as well. If this planet has an atmosphere, it conceivably could be life sustaining it's probably

tightly locked with one side facing the star but once again it's a dim

star so there's possibilities here that this could be one of the first potentially habitable Earth-sized planets we have located John.

More data has to be gotten.