-Astrophysicists found indications of a dust cloud surrounding a relatively young star.
-The star is 10 to 16 million years old, and analysis of the dust cloud suggests that it may coalesce and become a rocky planet like earth.
-It is located at a distance from the star that it may build an atmosphere, collect liquid water, and perhaps, in millions and millions of years, support life.
These are some quotes by Carey Lisse, Ph.D., a senior research scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., told Ivanhoe.
"What we think we're seeing is the actual formation of a planet -- terrestrial planet -- a rocky planet like the Earth, around the star."
"The material is forming at just the same distance, or close to the same distance where the Earth formed from the sun."
"So, the body that's going to form -- the planet that's going to form -- isn't going to be this gas giant with incredibly thick atmosphere."
"It's going to be a rocky planet like Mars or Venus or the Earth."
adapted by:http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/0401-discovering_a_new_earth_430_light_years_away.htm