Star Trek planet may really exist
NASA astronomers believe there may be a planet orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, just like Mr Spock's planet Vulcan in Star trek.
Using a powerful telescope the stargazers spotted that the triple-ringed star has an asteroid belt like that which lies beyond Mars in our solar system.
Using a logic that even Mr Spock would be proud of, they deduced that this could be and probably is home to planets like ours.
They say the discovery greatly boosts the chance that this new solar system could be inhabited ... and gives Trekkies a reason to dust off their pointy ears.
"This system probably looks a lot like ours did when life first took root on Earth," said Dana Backman, a NASA astronomer at the SETI Institute.
850 million years old, Epsilon Eridani resembles a younger twin to our solar system, 62 trillion miles away.
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