Sentences with phrase «region around other stars»
«If we want to study the evolution of Earth - like planets close to the habitable zone, we need to observe the zodiacal dust in this region around other stars,» said Steve Ertel, lead author of the paper, from ESO and the University of Grenoble in France.
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In the search for other Earths, the main goal is to find a planet the same size as ours that sits in the habitable zone — the region around a given star where planetary surface temperature would be similar to ours, allowing liquid water to exist.
This emission, observed in other galaxies mainly from regions around newborn stars, has now been detected in our Galaxy.
On the other hand, the discovery of a brown dwarf companion in a wide orbit that could perturb dormant comets in an Oort Cloud around Epsilon Indi inwards towards the star's inner planetary regions may periodically shower an Earth - type, inner planet with catastrophic impacts.
This region contains relatively young to intermediate - aged stars that within around five billion years old with relatively higher average metallicity than other galactic regions located outside of the galactic core, in a circular band that broadens with time.