Habitable Zone
TopicHabitable Zone
TopicEven though you threw in a /s (acknowledging that we are stacking hypothetical filters onto scarce data), we can actually use real astrophysical data to see how Earth stacks up. If we narrow the dataset down to the ~5,000+ confirmed exoplanets we have seen so far, and filter them by the "Earth Checklist," Earth quickly narrows down to a fraction of a percent. Here is how the math shakes out based on our current observations: The Broad Filter: The Habitable Zone (Top ~1.5% to 2%) Out of all th...
Evidence for the First Atmosphere on a Habitable-Zone Rocky World with Collin Cherubim
I’m willing to bet money that if another rocky planet lies smack in the CENTER of the habitable zone around another G dwarf,…that planet will have the same conditions as earth… it’s the definitive Goldilocks sweet spot. Due to the rare earth hypothesis, I don’t think it’s going to work anywhere but g dwarf habitable zone center only We haven’t found another G dwarf with a rocky world smack in the center of its habitable zone yet, like ours… There are only 7 billion G dwarfs in our galaxy… let...