With over 5,000 exoplanets — planets beyond our solar system — discovered to date, there’s a growing interest in locating which of these planets might be habitable. It’s no easy matter to find a planet where life might be able to thrive. When astronomers talk about habitable exoplanets, they often mean planets which are in the habitable zone. This zone encompasses a region around a star in which a planet could have the right surface temperature for water to be present
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