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Could There be 100 Billion Potentially Habitable Planets in the Galaxy?

March 15, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter As we’ve reported recently, the likelihood of findings habitable Earth-sized worlds just seems to keep getting better and better. But now the latest calculations from a new paper out this week are almost mind-bending. Using what the authors call a “very [...]

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“Impossible” Binary Star Systems Found

July 6, 2012

Astronomers think about half of the stars in our Milky Way galaxy are, unlike our Sun, part of a binary system where two stars orbit each other. However, they’ve also thought there was a limit on how close the two stars could be without merging into one single, bigger star. But now a team of [...]

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Billions of Habitable Worlds Likely in the Milky Way

March 28, 2012

Could there be ‘tens of billions’ of habitable worlds in our own galaxy? That’s the results from a new study that searched for rocky planets in the habitable zones around red dwarf stars. An international team of astronomers using ESO’s HARPS spectrograph now estimates that there are tens of billions of such planets in the [...]

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Goldilocks And The Habitable Zone – The Increased Place In Space

November 15, 2011

It’s referred to as the “Goldilock’s Zone”, but this area in space isn’t meant for sleepy or hungry bears – it’s the relative area in which life can evolve and sustain. This habitable region has some fairly strict parameters, such as certain star types and rigid distance limits, but new research shows it could be [...]

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