Sentences with phrase «in habitable»

In Alaska, the landlord is legally required to keep the premises in habitable condition and generally good repair.

The landlord needs to maintain the home in a habitable condition, as well.

Can your landlord require you to keep the apartment in habitable condition in Rhode Island?

Under most state laws, that includes an» implied warranty of habitability,» meaning the landlord is not only required to deliver the property to the tenant in a habitable condition, but also maintain the property as such throughout the duration of the tenant's lease.

For example, at common law, landlords did not have to repair properties, did not have to keep them in habitable condition, could raise rents whenever they wanted, could evict tenants for no reason, etc..

With all the interest in the Arctic sea - ice extent reaching new minimums in area and volume, it seems instructive to point out a similar phenomena occurring in habitable areas.

Freeman Dyson famously described, over 50 years ago, what's called a «Dyson Sphere» which may be the ultimate in habitable spaces.

«An alien would spot three planets in our solar system in the habitable zone [Earth, Mars and Venus],» Rushby said, «but we know that 67 percent of those planets are not very habitable.»

I have always maintained that the human race would not have evolved as we have if there were no homeostatic mechanisms to avoid extremes of weather in the habitable areas of Earth.

gavin, I am interested in what an x feet (for various x) increase in sea level means as a reduction in actual global land area but perhaps more relevantly in the resultant increase / decrease in habitable land area (increased I imagine in Canada, Siberia, Antarctica etc).

«increase in habitable land in Antarctica»....

5) Tidal effects are also of concern for planets in the habitable zones of lows mass stars.

Per NBC, the $ 600 million Kepler observatory launched in March 2009 to hunt for Earth - size alien planets in the habitable zone of their parent stars, where liquid water, and perhaps even life, might be able to exist.

But if we know of maybe 15 planets we're pretty sure are in their habitable zones, the targets get more limited and the project becomes a lot cheaper.»

If NEID can identify some clearly Earth - sized planets in habitable zones, he said, then the planning for LUVOIR or Hab - Ex could be more focused (and the proposal potentially less costly.)

The first step in finding possible abodes for life is to find planets in the Habitable Zones of their stars, whose surface temperatures would allow liquid water.

«The planets in the habitable zone around nearby dwarf stars, like Proxima Centauri or TRAPPIST - 1, are exposed to strong stellar winds that could strip their atmospheres,» Loeb said.

The trick is teasing out from the data which of those planets are far enough from their parent star to be in the habitable zone, and whether there are others not showing in the data that could skew the results.

Adibekyan and collaborators set out to find how the frequency of small, rocky planets in the habitable zone is affected by the composition of the host star.

Our goal is to search nearby exoplanets which have been determined to be in the habitable zone of their host star.

Now researchers from both the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have figured out how probable it is for stars in the Milky Way to have planets in the habitable zone, where liquid water could be present, and the result is pretty astounding: from one to three per star.

So, a planet that is exterior to the habitable zone at formation might end up in the habitable zone over time.

Finally found: an Earth - sized planet in the habitable zone.

Since our telescopes and detection programs have only begun being sensitive enough to find a small planet in the habitable zone, it is possible the ones in this sample are not truly representative of the whole planet population, but are just the easiest ones to find.

Kepler - 186f is the very first exoplanet that is both the size of our own world and in the habitable zone surrounding its star.

Assuming that the frequency of observed habitable zone planets really is a result of stellar age, this begs the question of whether the planets currently observed in the habitable zone really formed there or whether they were brought into it as their star evolved.

Of the 135 planets confirmed so far, only a few are thought to be in the habitable (or «Goldilocks») zone, where conditions on the planet's surface can support surface liquid water.

Dubbed Project Blue, the mission aims to build and launch a space telescope with a single goal in mind: to image any planets in the habitable zones of the nearest Sun - like stars.

Three, possibly four, super-Earths have been detected in the habitable zone around Star C (more), view of daytime sky from planet «d» as imagined by Kormmesser.

Once planets in these habitable zones are found the size of the planet is taken into account.

Who knows, in that habitable strip on Proxima b, somebody might be aiming a telescope at us, to check whether our rock has an atmosphere.

I'm pretty darn sure that long before 50 years from now Kepler or some other mission will have detected earth - size planets in the habitable zones of their stars and we will have been able to look remotely for biosignatures.

The planet should be rocky — life as we know it can not exist on a gas giant, for example — it needs an atmosphere capable of supporting life and it should be in the habitable zone of the solar system.

capitalize on the excitement of discovering Earth - size planets in the habitable zone of sun - like stars.

It also lets us know how common exoplanets are in the habitable regions around stars, where the temperatures are not too hot and not too cold, where liquid water can exist, and complex molecules may have figured out the processes we call life.

GJ 1214 is a red dwarf star with one known planet in a hot inner orbit, beyond even the inner edge of the star's close - in habitable zone, as imagined by Aguilar with two hypothetical moons (more).

Their hypothesis states that a series of chance events or situations, such as living in the habitable zone of the sun, having a Jupiter - type planet to clear away comet and asteroid debris and having few mass extinctions, has allowed life to develop on Earth and would be unlikely to happen elsewhere.

In 2008 a team of researchers from the Universities of California, San Francisco State and the SETI Institute published a study in The Astrophysical Journal showing their computer simulations of planets formation around Alpha Centauri B. For all the possible initial conditions studied, between 1 and 4 planets were created orbiting that star, of which almost half of them would reside in the habitable zone.

But these are small, dim stars compared to our Sun, and hugging the star is essential to remain in the habitable zone.

Finding Habitable Planets February 23, 2011 NASA's Kepler mission, launched in March of 2009 to search for extrasolar planets, has found a system with five Earth ‑ like planets in the habitable zone, where liquid water may exist.

@Charlie, if I understand your question correctly, our current instruments would not be capable of finding an Earth - sized planet in the habitable zones of A or B.

Project Blue's mission concept is based on the published work of Dr. Eduardo Bendek and Dr. Rus Belikov to image planets in the habitable zone of Alpha Cen A & B using a highly optimized coronagraphic telescope devoted to image the HZ of both stars.

Out of those potential planets, about 54 are in the habitable zone, and 68 are «roughly Earth - size.»

«An alien would spot three planets in our solar system in the habitable zone [Earth, Mars and Venus],» Rushby said, «but we know that 67 percent of those planets are not very habitable.»

For mid-type M - dwarfs like V374 Peg, magnetic fields between tens to hundreds of Gauss are required to protect an exoplanet in the habitable zone.

Although their data confirms that two planets (e and f) may be in the habitable zone it doesn't mean life flourishes or even exists there.

There are other factors to consider about M - dwarfs, especially the fact that planets close enough to these stars to be in the habitable zone are most likely tidally locked, presenting the same face to the star at all times.

The results, published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also add 603 exoplanet candidates to Kepler's tally, including 10 Earth - sized ones in the habitable zone.

Since December 2012 Tau Ceti has become even more appealing, thanks to evidence of possibly five planets orbiting it, with two of these — Tau Ceti e and f — potentially residing in the habitable zone.

Earlier this year, Earthlings rejoiced when scientists announced the discovery of three rocky exoplanets in the habitable zone of TRAPPIST - 1, an «ultracool dwarf» star located just 39 light years away.