{"id":801,"date":"2015-03-18T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/?p=801"},"modified":"2022-08-19T13:35:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T13:35:24","slug":"exoplanets-exist-in-habitable-zone-around-most-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techfragments.com\/exoplanets-exist-in-habitable-zone-around-most-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Exoplanets Exist in Habitable Zone around Most Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered by astronomers using the Kepler satellite<\/a>. Through analysis of these planetary systems, researchers have calculated the probability of the number of stars that might have planets in the habitable zone.<\/p>\n

The calculations show that billions of stars in the Milky Way will have one to three planets in the habitable zone, where there is the potential for liquid water and where life could exist.<\/p>\n

Using NASA’s Kepler satellite, astronomers have found about 1,000 planets around stars in the Milky Way and they have also found about 3,000 other potential planets. Many of the stars have planetary systems with 2-6 planets.<\/p>\n

But the stars could very well have more planets than those observable with the Kepler satellite, which is best suited for finding large planets that orbit relatively close to their stars.<\/p>\n

Planets that orbit close to their stars would be too scorching hot to have life.<\/p>\n

So to find out if such planetary systems might also have planets in the habitable zone with the potential for liquid water and life, a group of researchers from the Australian National University<\/a> and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen made calculations based on a new version of a 250-year-old method called the Titius-Bode law.<\/p>\n

Titius-Bode Calculations<\/h2>\n

The Titius-Bode law was formulated around 1770 and correctly calculated the position of Uranus before it was even discovered.<\/p>\n