Sentences with phrase «habitability zone»
Tau Ceti e falls clearly within the Core Habitability Zone, that being the region within which a planet like Earth will have liquid water.
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The Planetary Habitability Laboratory (U Puerto Rico, Arecibo) notes that both Tau Ceti e and f fall within the Extended Habitability Zone where larger planets with thicker atmospheres might retain sufficient heat for water to be liquid.
But things are not quite so simple, because galaxies — like solar systems — have habitability zones of their own.
Not exact matches
The Galactic Habitable Zone Astrobiologists» new, grander view of habitability gets even more expansive when they look out to the galaxy around us.
For an exo... ▽ More In the outer regions of the habitable zone, the risk of transitioning into a globally frozen «snowball» state poses a threat to the habitability of planets with the capacity to host water - based life.
They find that much depends on how we set limits on the habitable zone, but in general habitability durations of a billion years are possible for planets within 2 - 3 Roche radii for brown dwarfs above 0.03 solar masses.
The other factor that arises from this is that CMEs, of all the various dangerous stellar eminations, appear to be most responsible for planetary atmospheric erosion so anything that mitigates their effect has got to be good in terms of planetary habitability and most of all in M dwarf systems where the «habitable zone» is close to the star and well within the region of synchronous rotation.
On July 19, 2012, the Planetary Habitability Laboratory (PHL) announced that new data and analysis suggest that the most habitable super-Earth known on that date may be Gliese 581 g, among four other super-Earths near or within the habitable zone of their host stars.
Our Solar System's history, especially Earth, Mars, and Venus, has driven early thinking about concepts such as the «habitable zone» that have traditionally been applied to evaluate the habitability of planets discovered orbiting other stars.