Hi,

anyone knows whether some stars with orbiting planets that are at the right distance of the star for water or an athmosphere, not too far (too cold), neither too close(too hot) have been discovered yet?

its called google, and yes there have been

goldilocks zone 400billion earths

This post was edited by doomchaser on May 15 2012 11:36am

If you subscribe to the theory of an infinate universe ther are an infinate number of earths and everything in it including you. But within our visual range yes there are billions if not trillions of potential earth like planets

just in the milky way est.. 400billion like earth planets..possible..kind of eye opening sense we thought just a few years ago our planet was soo speciial...come found out we not as special as we thought ...infact we not special at all..this is the bigest eye opener of our race for a long time..

Lots of places have water - lots and lots of places even in our own solar system. A lot of frozen moons in our solar system may have -350 degree surfaces, but still have internal heat that creates salt water oceans 60+ miles under the surface of the very, very thick ice sheets.

Likewise, an atmosphere is not determined by distance from the sun as much as other factors.

That's not necessarily true

This post was edited by Derkaderk on May 27 2012 05:04pm

Depends on what you mean by infinite. The universe is infinite, but the OBSERVABLE universe is decidedly finite due to the speed limit placed on us by the speed of light. Since the universe is 13.7 billion years old, we can't see farther away than 13.7B light years. And we never will see anything beyond that threshold, if there even is anything past that point.

they're all too far

if you traveling at lightspeed only 1-10 years take you to lots of stars...if you can bend space maybe not even that long