Sentences with phrase «zones around other stars»

Understanding the role played by planet's electric winds will help astronomers improve estimates of the size and location of habitable zones around other stars.

Capable of collecting nine times as much light as any other optical telescope, it could discover Earth - like planets in the habitable zones around other stars and search for changes over time in the fundamental physical constants.

They all are promising candidates but I would think that looking at places with extreme conditions would be more worthwhile in that they could broaden what we consider to be the habitable zone around other stars.

Not exact matches

The HOSTS Survey has determined that the typical level of zodiacal dust around other stars — called «exo - zodiacal dust» — is less than 15 times the amount found in our own solar system's habitable zone.

«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.

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.

The putative Centauri Bb supported the idea that there might be other planets there, and we've known since the work of Paul Wiegert and Matt Holman back in the 1990s that sustainable habitable zone orbits are possible around both the primary Alpha Centauri stars.

It speaks to the very heart of trying to understand how life may have evolved not just on earth but on other terrestrial bodies both in our own solar system and indeed around other stars that have planets that lie in the so - called «habitable zone» (where liquid water can exist on the surface).