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Earth size planets in habitable zones are more common than previously thought
Earth-sized planets in
habitable zones are more
common than
previously thought
Penn State researchers, with new information on water and carbon dioxide absorption that was not available in 1993, re-analyzed the number of habitable planets per stars checked. They came up with that there could be more than 4 habitable planets for every 10 stars, which is more than previously thought.
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This article comes from:
Anne Danahy
March 12, 2013
Penn State News
http://news.psu.edu/story/268138/2013/03/12/research/earth-sized-planets-habitable-zones-are-more-common-previously
What I think
This gets my hopes up that in the future, we may be able to travel to these planets, because more inhabitable planets means the more possibility that there is one close to us. Also, I read a magazine article about warping through space and time. I didn't really get it, but this might lead us to be able to use this to get to the inhabitable planets.
In a star system where the sun is a dwarf star...
How do we know
this?
THE ANSWER
We now think
that there would
be 4 inhabitable
planets for every
star we looked at,
which is more than
previously thought.