Habitable zone

The sun is the star we are orbiting, which gives us heat and more stuff. Of course, it is also potentially dangerous, it can cause skin cancer, solar winds, too much heat, and it will obviously end up destroying the earth in a few billion years. I am especially studying the solar winds, this is because I think that solar winds are more interesting than the others because they look as if they were more fun and had more things to talk about. The problem with solar winds is that they come to the…

In the book “The life of super earth”, Dimitar Sasselov, one of the expert astronomer discusses some of the major findings on investigations of the universe. Much of the research relates to investigations in the laboratory relating to synthetic biology and how it can lead to better understanding of alien life in other planets outside the solar system. The most interesting idea is Sasselov’s claim that super-earths have better chances of harboring life than earth-sized planets. Personally, I have…

normal one. But the search for exoplanets is for one specific reason: to find an Earth-like planet that is habitable for humans. Scientists have been theorising about exoplanets for hundreds of years, but their existence wasn’t confirmed until the 1990s, which is pretty recent. Most of the early exoplanets were discovered by the MOST…

The Search For Life on Other Planets/Moons For years and years scientists have had mars in their crosshairs when discussing life on other planets within our solar system. Now say we discover that mars is completely lifeless in every way possible. Is there any other possibility of life in our solar system? The answer to that question is in the moons of Jupiter. More specifically the moon europa. There is no absolute proof because scientists have not had the opportunity to land anything…

universe is keep expanding. By the time human invented such a powerful mode of transportation, Trappist-1 might already change its location, which will possibly more father away from us. Although many scientists agree that the earth might still be habitable for another billion of years, so there is no need to find another planet. However, as mentioned in my previous blog, human population is keep growing rapidly and hence there might not be enough resources for human to sustain life for that…

presented a summary of NASA’s research and discoveries. Within the last decade, over two hundred and fifty terabytes of data have been sent home by the spacecraft, giving us insight about the Red Planet during the ongoing search of water and habitable zones. The idea of water on Mars has such high relevance because it is a necessity to any type of living organism. Although present day Mars currently has no liquid water that is stable on the planet’s surface, physical traces of canals and…

example planet is Wolf 1061. “The second planet in tgis star’s solar system is the next-closest to Earth-ish-sized planet in a habitable zone, after Proxima b”(Scoles). It is currently 14 light years away. Finally, the last planet is called G7 667. “A mere 22 light-years away, this solar system has three super-Earth planets---between Earth’s and Uranus’ mass---in the habitable…

were and with the high possibilities of the atmosphere, NASA and scientists were filled with hope and determination “Answering the question ‘are we alone’ is a top science priority and finding so many planets like these for the first time in the habitable zone is a remarkable step forward toward that goal.” Says NASA’s scientists. With today’s technology people could live on one of the planets and colonize. People could even start over if they wanted to. However, there are some predicaments with…

Describe five key aspects pertinent to the Kepler mission. (Please feel free to consult the Kepler website.) a) Some of the objectives of the Kepler Mission include: determining the abundance of terrestrial and larger planets in/near the habitable zone around stars. The distribution of sizes and shapes of the orbits of these extrasolar planets. And, determine the properties of the stars that the planets orbit. b) The presence of extrasolar planets can be detected by measuring the change in…

particular planets of interest. With the advent of the extremely large telescope (ELT) era soon approaching, these two goals will become increasingly intertwined as better instruments give us the power to study the atmospheres of smaller, potentially habitable planets. In the meantime we can look at the brightest targets, typically Jupiter-sized planets in close-orbits, i.e. “hot Jupiters,” with current ground-based telescopes. I propose to develop a ground-breaking technique that uses optical…