If conditions are
similar around other stars and planets, there should be trillions of moons in our galaxy, with a small but significant percentage of them suitable for life.
Not exact matches
The answers will not only help explain how Earth became an ideal place for incubating life; they will also tell a lot about the odds of finding
similar habitable planets
around other stars.
Atmospheres have been reported on only three
other small worlds: one
around an M dwarf, one
around a K dwarf and one orbiting a
star similar to the sun.
If they show up, that will bolster the case for a
similar cycle that maintains thin rings
around Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune — and quite possibly
around the planets of many
other stars as well.
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.
Similar disks are observed today
around other sunlike
stars and are presumed to be new planetary systems in the making.
I'm confident that we'll detect signs of life on exoplanets (planets
around other stars) by observing the atmospheres of the planets that we're detecting now — especially those
similar to Earth in mass and orbit — and finding oxygen and
other chemical signatures there.
Though it's a long way from a few simple molecules to even the most basic proteins, detecting chemistry
similar to Earth's
around distant
stars suggests that the pathway to life may be possible on
other worlds.
We measure the radial profile and fractional luminosity of the disc, and compare the values to those of discs
around stars of
similar age and / or spectral type, placing this disc in context of
other resolved discs observed by Herschel / DUNES.
The development of life on Earth is no longer thought to have been an improbable event, but one which may be common under
similar environmental conditions elsewhere,
around other stars as well as in our own Solar System.
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