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Scientists Discovered Planets Even Better for Life Than Earth

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By Wayne Published 11 months ago 3 min read
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Scientists Discovered Planets Even Better for Life Than Earth
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the most alien planet in the universe Earth is obviously the greatest planet for life

The Earth may be wonderful, but scientists have discovered a few planets that may be even more suitable for life.

Most of the planets on our list of super habitable planets are too far away to visit any time soon, with the exception of koi 575.01, which is 3, 000 light years away from our solar system. This planet appears to meet the most basic requirements for supporting life because it exists in the Goldilocks zone of its star, where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface.

Its planetary system could be five and a half billion years old, making it approximately one billion years older than our own solar system, and its planet would almost meet the size requirement for highly habitable worlds.

This size difference would help the planet retain heat, and if its average temperature was about 5 degrees Celsius higher than Earth's, then this planet could have even richer biodiversity. However, koi 571 5.01 might overshoot this condition a bit, and studies indicate that this planet would not be able to support life as we know it. holiday shopping may give you a rush, but it can also sustain the corporate world's stranglehold on small businesses. When you shop online at Amazon or Walmart, for example, these companies use their sales platforms to promote their products over smaller businesses with competing products. This practice is called self-preferencing because it prioritizes the company's interests over those of others.

This puts Kepler 69c in the estimated five to eight billion year old age range for super habitable planets, which is based on the three and a half billion years it took for complex life to appear on Earth, so the best chance for finding life could be on a planet a little older than us. However, this exoplanet may be too massive to be super habitable, as it has a mass almost four times that of Earth. Washed by Kepler's ocean could be your perfect spot to move to our next Super Earth shares a similar name Kepler 1126b except it would be located ever so slightly closer to home yeah this planet is about 2073 light years away and it belongs to a system that is seven and a half billion years old it also orbits a yellow dwarf star much like our own only Kepler 1126b is two and a half times closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun but that's no big deal because the star Kepler 1126b orbits is cooler than ours so the habitable zone would exist in a Range much closer in proximity to it if you aren't feeling this nearness to a scorching hot star there's another Super Earth on our list and it's at a reasonable distance from home speculos 2C is located only 106 light years away not that its proximity gives it any kind of advantage it would still take you well over 200 000 years to travel to this super Earth and that's if you moved at the speed of NASA's Parker solar probe the fastest probe ever launched speculos 2C does look promising though it's about 40 percent larger than Earth there's also the potential for it being a rocky planet just like ours now despite the fact that it also exists in a habitable zone it's red dwarf star is still very small it's only about 15 percent the size of our sun so this planet orbits around its star at a very close distance and this close distance could mean that speculos 2C is tidally locked to its star

This super Earth takes eight and a half days to make one full rotation on its axis as well as one orbit around its star, which would leave one side of the planet in constant daylight and the other in Endless Night. This means that life could be possible in The Terminator Zone, the thin strip of land between the two sides

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Wayne

Am wayne, a writer from kenya specified in research and article writing. I love doing research on natural things, football updates and updating what going on in the world

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