New Earth Sized Planet Discovered in Neighboring Solar System

Astronomers have discovered a new earth sized planet in October 2012 which is closest to but outside our solar system. The planet is said to be astronomical stone’s throw away at four light years.

The discovery of planet was announced in Science Journal, Nature by Stephane Urdy and Xavier Dumusque at Geneva Observatory.
 The planet is very close to its sun that it is difficult to support life there. The planet is of very low mass and  have a surface temperature of about 1200 degree Celsius (2192 Farenheit).The Planet orbits one of the suns in Alpha Centauri, roughly 25 trillion miles away.

Also according to the previous study by different scientist if one planet is discovered orbiting a sun there is usually other planet in the same solar system.

Almost 800 exoplanets are discovered in the recent past that is outside our solar system since early 1990’s. But this Planet is very close to earth.

It was also asserted that getting to the planet is nearly impossible because it would take about 40000 years to travel to new planet even with current Propulsion Technology