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Hello and welcome to Newsround, with Hayley and Joe. We have got a | :00:17. | :00:22. | |
tasty Tuesday fall of Newsroundy treats for you. Coming up: | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
We will find out about the major operation to rescue stranded seals. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
And the bomb blast that has devastated lives in Afghanistan. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
But first to some exciting news about space. The final frontier! A | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
new planet has been found outside our solar system that is so similar | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
to ours that scientists are calling it Earth's twin. Scientists at NASA | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
are getting very excited about it because they reckon it could | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
actually support life. But don't pack your bags yet, Hayley, because | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
if you think Mars is a bit of a trek, this is 600 light years away! | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
They call it Kepler-22b. It's more than twice the size of Earth, and | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
has a nice, cosy temperature of 22 Celsius. And in an enormous, | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
constantly moving universe made up of fireballs and ice planets, | :01:05. | :01:12. | |
finding a place that is similar to the Earth is pretty special. And | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
this is why. Here is us - Earth. We orbit the Sun from about 90 million | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
miles away, close enough to keep warm and not too close to evaporate | :01:20. | :01:26. | |
all of our precious water. This is Kepler-22b. As you can see, it also | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
orbits its sun at about the same distance away. It is this area that | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
they call the Goldilocks zone - not too hot, not too cold, just right. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Since launching their Kepler telescope into space two years ago, | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
NASA has been searching for planets like this. They have found more | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
than a thousand new worlds since then, but this is the first where | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
conditions are most like Earth. But there is a lot they still don't | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
know. Is it rocky on Kepler-22b or gassy? Could it be made up of | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
liquid? And if it is 600 light years away, how on Earth are we | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
going to get there? So many questions! Well, if anyone | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
knows the answers, it is probably space supremo Professor Brian Cox. | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
Yeah, but we could never get hold of him, could we? We could, and we | :02:15. | :02:24. | |
did! Kepler is a long way away. Could we | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
ever get there? Yes, it is in principle possible. Even if you | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
think something is one light year away because you are very close, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
you might think you could any travel -- if you could only travel | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
at the speed of light, it would take a year to get there. But | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Einstein tells us that strange things happen when you approach the | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
speed of light. The closer you get to it, the more your time it slows | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
down, or distances shrink. So if you were Arabian of light, you | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
would jump across the universe instantaneously. We could not do it | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
in modern spaceships, though. is the trouble, it is an | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
engineering problem. They have called it Kepler-22b, not very | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
catchy. Why? It is named after the Kepler mission. Kepler was the guy | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
who first understood planetary orbits. All day, we have been | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
asking the guys on the website to send in their ideas for a planet. | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
What would you call a planet? one, you could call it Earth | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
version 2.0, because it could be very similar to the earth. Let's | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
call it Earth to. Catchy. Not very catchy, is it? | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
You have been getting in touch all day with your suggestions for the | :03:38. | :03:48. | |
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Now to a big rescue operation for hundreds of stranded seals off the | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
coast of Lincolnshire. The pups were separated from their mothers | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
by big waves. The extra high tide struck the seal colony at Donna | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
Nook a week ago, and it is estimated that up to 75 seal pups | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
may have died. It is a known seal sanctuary, and visitors to the area | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
have been shocked by the news. really sad, because it is an | :04:20. | :04:25. | |
amazing sight to see. It is quite a shock, because there was a thriving | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
community. The first time we came, 600 pups were born. | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
Next to Afghanistan, where a suicide bomb has killed more than | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
50 people. The bomb exploded when people were celebrating a religious | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
festival in the capital, Kabul. It comes just a day after big talks | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
took place between Britain and other countries, aimed at securing | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
a safe future for people in the country. But now that has been | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
thrown into doubt. The centre of Kabul in the | :04:48. | :04:58. | |
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aftermath of one of the biggest attacks in the city's history. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Hours earlier, people were celebrating a special festival for | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
Shiite Muslims. Tensions exist in Afghanistan between Shiites and | :05:05. | :05:08. | |
other Muslims called Sunnis, but there has not been an attack of | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
this scale in the country since the fall of the terrorist group the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
Taliban ten years ago. This bombing was different to most of the recent | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
violence in Afghanistan, which has been aimed at the foreign troops | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
there. Doctors, nurses and the police struggled to count the | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
number of dead and injured. One bystander had this to say - a "this | :05:29. | :05:35. | |
action is against humanity and against Islam". Afghanistan's | :05:35. | :05:38. | |
President spoke about the attack while attending a set of talks in | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
Germany with other world leaders about how Afghanistan will be run | :05:40. | :05:46. | |
after foreign troops leave in three years' time. This is the first time | :05:46. | :05:49. | |
on such an important religious day in Afghanistan that terrorism of | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
that horrible nature is taking place. World leaders are still | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
trying to secure peace and progress for the future of Afghanistan. But | :06:01. | :06:07. | |
for the people here now, it is hard to look beyond today. | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
Sport, and it's crunch-time tonight for this guy. Chelsea manager Andre | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
Villas-Boas needs his under-fire team to either win or draw 0-0 to | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
progress in the Champions League. They play Valencia at Stamford | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
Bridge. And even though the Blues are going through a bad run at the | :06:24. | :06:31. | |
moment, the manager says he has no intention of changing his tactics. | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
We will not change our strategy just because we are playing such an | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
important game. The strategy will be the same. We will take the | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
initiative with the ball. We do not speculate with the game. | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
What next for David Beckham? Goldenballs has one more game for | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
LA Galaxy before his contract ends. He says he's not sure if he'll stay | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
in America or play at the 2012 Olympics, but don't worry, Becks | :06:53. | :07:00. | |
fans - he says he has no intention of retiring. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Hot on the heels of Newsround's autism special, there is another | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
one on the way tonight on the CBBC channel tonight at 6:20pm. It is | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
about two kids who live different lives, but who spend a week in each | :07:12. | :07:22. | |
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Before we go, imagine opening your lunchbox and finding a two-year-old | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
sandwich inside. How gross would that be? Ugh! Well, a sandwich | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
which stays fresh for two years has been developed for the US army. | :07:38. | :07:41. |