Sunday 3 February 2013

Updated model for identifying habitable zones around stars

Updated model for identifying habitable zones around stars:
Habitable zone distances around various types of stars (Image: Chester Herman)
Researchers at Penn state have developed a new method for calculating the habitable zone around stars. The computer model based on new greenhouse gas databases provides a tool to better estimate which exoplanets with sufficient atmospheric pressure might be able to maintain liquid water on their surface. The new model indicates that some of the nearly 300 possible Earth-like planets previously identified might be too close to their stars to to be habitable. .. Continue Reading Updated model for identifying habitable zones around stars

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