The Goldilocks Zone

Just as the party was about to start two free spirits decided to leave together, may they fly away and live forever.....

The Gliese 581 super-Earth is in what scientists call the "Goldilocks Zone" where temperatures "are just right" for life to have a chance to exist.

Commenting on the discovery, Alison Boyle, the curator of astronomy at London's Science Museum, said: "Of all the planets we've found around other stars, this is the one that looks as though it might have the right ingredients for life.

"It's 20 light-years away and so we won't be going there anytime soon, but with new kinds of propulsion technology that could change in the future. And obviously we'll be training some powerful telescopes on it to see what we can see,"

Book me a ticket I'm going! Or... then again, maybe I could follow the somewhat sexist and surprisingly socialist Lone Ranger Creed and stay here:

"I believe all men are created equal and that everyone has within himself the power to make this a better world."

The Lone Ranger.