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Scientists claim to have discovered a potentially habitable planet which has an environment much similar to that of the Earth and may contain water and even life.
The exoplanet, called Gliese 581g, is located around 123 trillion miles away from the Earth and orbits a star at a distance that places it squarely in the habitable or the Goldilocks zone
The new findings are based on 11 years of observations of the nearby red dwarf star Gliese 581 using the HIRES spectrometer on the Keck I Telescope by a team from UC Santa Cruz and the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
Like our solar system, the planets around Gliese 581 have nearly-circular orbits, the team said.

The High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage for India on Sunday held a brainstorming session here to address concerns raised by the World Bank over some of the recommendations in its report for the 12th Five Year Plan.
Among the issues raised were marginalisation of the private sector and the “elimination of intermediation by insurance companies.”
The expert group, which will revert to the Planning Commission on Monday with answers to the queries, however, remained committed to providing universal health coverage to all
World Bank said: “There is a growing number of high-quality, low-cost providers that may be willing to engage with the government in providing defined packages of care to the poor. Policies need to be in place to foster more effective engagement with the private sector.”
the organisation said recent experience had shown that these intermediaries had contributed substantial administrative and technical capacity to the government agencies.
India's universal health coverage strategy would be much more successful in delivering health, economic and political benefits, if it could focus on achieving results at the primary and district level rather than improving access to expensive tertiary care.
Unfortunately, the current Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana insurance scheme, in covering only in-patient care, appears to be having an opposite effect.