Comments:NASA says star system contains 'earth-like planet' in the making

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I beleive this could be possible! Isn't great to have a new home??

Absolutely...but not for about another 100 million years though. DragonFire1024 (Talk to the Dragon) 18:59, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Where it says "is currently forming", don't they actually mean "was forming 400 years ago"? The images we're seeing now, since their origin is 400 light-years away, took place 400 years ago. Wikisoup 21:48, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Funny

A earth like planet forming, in millions or billions of years. This is more of a curiosity, since no-one for several generations (perhaps not even any human ever) will ever see the planet be like earth. Even after it fully forms, it would take many millions of years to have a stable surface. Contralya 07:37, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

So far away

It's beautiful that this is happening. I wonder if life will evolve there?

how fast is this planet forming? useless article if cant answer that

- imad

If i was to take a geuss, a very long time. For something like this, its probably on geologic time scale. In addition to that, for life to actually appear that is anything like earthlife (or even appear at all) would take billions of years. Bawolff ☺☻ 05:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)