text: WEB DESK: The wait is almost over! We are just a day beyond Salman Khan starrer Prem Ratan Dhan Payo which is all set to release simultaneously in India and Pakistan tomorrow , Nov 12.
  Director Sooraj Barjatya and Salman Khan have partnered after 16 years for Prem Ratan Dhan Payo. Whenever this duo mishmash, they create magic. The pair has given us blockbusters like Maine Pyaar Kiya, Hum Saath Saath Hain and Hum Aapke Hai Koun in the past.
  Like Sooraj’s former movies, Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is also a family entertainer and both Indian and Pakistani masses prefer watching good family drama films over other genres.
  Prem Ratan Dhan Payo is releasing on Diwali and it is the only high- budget Bollywod film letting out quite close to the Hindu festival.Ranbir Kapoor and Deepika Padukone’s Tamasha will release on 27th November, but till then Prem Ratan Dhan Payo will get at least a couple of weeks to rule at the Box Office.
  For the first time Salman Khan would be seen opposite Sonam Kapoor on silver screen. Salman’s fans are totally loving the fresh duo as the the trailer of the movie garnered over five million views within 24 hours of its launch and has been going strong ever since.
  Prem Ratan Dhan Payo stars heart throb Salman Khan-the one and only- equally admired in India and Pakistan.
  Scientists have discovered a planet that appears to be similar to Earth circling the star closest to the sun, potentially a major step in the quest to find out if life exists elsewhere in the universe, research published on Wednesday showed.
  Future studies may reveal if any atmosphere contains tell-tale chemicals of biological life, such as methane, according to a paper published in this week’s issue of the journal Nature.
  “The key question of our initiative was whether there were potentially life-bearing planets orbiting these stars. We know now there is at least one planet with some characteristics similar to the Earth,” said Pete Worden, a former top NASA manager, who was speaking at a European Southern Observatory webcast news conference to announce the find.
  “This planetary system is much closer than any other that we know so detailed investigation is easier,” astronomer Ansgar Reiners, with the University of Gottingen in Germany, told reporters on a conference call.
  Astronomers got their first hint of a planet circling the sun’s small dim neighbor star in 2013. But they needed additional observations, using more precise instruments, to make a definitive call.
  The shifts, which astronomers call “wobbles,” are caused by the gravitational tugging of a planet roughly 1.3 times the size of Earth on the parent star. Based on the timing of wobbles, scientists determined that the planet circles its host star in just 11 days, compared to Earth’s 365-day orbit around the sun.
  That puts the planet far closer to its parent star than Earth orbits the sun. However, Proxima Centauri is so much smaller and dimmer than the sun that its planet’s orbit is suitably positioned for liquid water despite being just 4.4 million miles away.
  “Chances are good that it’s a viable, Earth-like planet today,” said astronomer Pedro Amado, with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain.
  Proxima b may not be flying solo. “We have some suspicions that there is another signal around the star,” Reiners said.
  “We hope to build a whole system that will send nanocraft to Proxima Centauri and Alpha Centauri within a generation,” said Worden, the executive director of Breakthrough Starshot, an initiative that aims to deploy thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures. -Reuters