Sentences with phrase «habitable planet beyond our solar system»

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Even so, the quest for finding truly habitable — maybe even inhabited — planets beyond the solar system may require more ambitious, next - generation observatories.

Using data from our solar system and observations of huge planets far beyond the visual range of any telescope, astrophysicists René Heller and Ralph Pudritz have shown that some moons of those planets could be habitable.

Researchers use a concept known as the habitable zone to distinguish between these two types of planets, which exist beyond our solar system.

One of the big questions in the study of planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, is whether or not they are habitable.

If this finding is correct, that would mean the Milky Way is home to tens of billions of planets in habitable zones, concludes a team of scientists using an Earth - based telescope to look for planets beyond the solar system.

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