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IN SPACE - UNSPECIFIED: In this handout illustration made available on December 5, 2011 by NASA, a diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first 'habitable zone' planet discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The habitable zone is the sweet spot around a star where temperatures are right for water to exist in its liquid form. Liquid water is essential for life on Earth. The diagram displays an artist's rendering of the planet comfortably orbiting within the habitable zone, similar to where Earth circles the sun. Kepler-22b has a yearly orbit of 289 days. The planet is the smallest known to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a sun-like star and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth.

IN SPACE - UNSPECIFIED: In this handout illustration made available on December 5, 2011 by NASA, the Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star is digitally illustrated. For the first time NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed a planet to orbit in a star's habitable zone; the region around a star, where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could persist. The planet is 2.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habit. Clouds could exist in this earth's atmosphere, as the artist's interpretive illustration depicts.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 16: NASA Astronaut Mark Kelly, husband to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), attends the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol November 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. The gold medals were presented to the crew of the Apollo 11, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin; and to astronaut and former U.S. Senator John Glenn (D-OH), the first American to orbit the Earth.

WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 16: Astronauts (L-R) Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL), former U.S. Senator John Glenn (D-OH), Buzz Aldrin and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden participate in the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol November 16, 2011 in Washington, DC. The gold medals were presented to Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth; and Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin, the crew of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

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