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5 star systems capable of hosting life have just been discovered

As many as 5 new star systems are located at the right distance from their star (or their stars) to host oceans and life. When is the first photo?

April 16 2021
Gianluca RiccioGianluca Riccio
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Almost fifty years ago the creators of the Star Wars saga invented a habitable planet called Tatooine. Its peculiarity? That of revolving around a pair of stars, in the light of a double sunset.

Astronomers have just found startling evidence pointing to five star systems (Kepler-34, -35, -38, -64, and -413) that could support life, according to a new study. published in the journal Frontiers in Astronomy and space sciences.

In other words, we have just taken five steps towards the possibility of finding life beyond our solar system.

Five star systems with habitable zones

Star systems
An exoplanet in binary star systems

A newly developed mathematical structure allowed the discovery to researchers from the University of Washington and New York University in Abu Dhabi. The team found that these five star systems (2.764 and 5.933 light-years from Earth, in the constellations Cygnus and Lyra) each have a 'permanent habitable zone'.

A habitable zone is a region of space near the stars where liquid water can form and remain on the surface as it does on Earth. One of the systems, kepler-64, has at least four such stars.

"Life is very likely to evolve on planets located in the Habitable Zone of their system, just like Earth," he says. Nikolaos Georgakarakos, study author and research associate of New York University Abu Dhabi. "For the first time we see that Kepler-34 -35, -64, -413 and especially Kepler-38 are suitable for hosting Earth-like worlds. Worlds with oceans."

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Scientists generally think that most stars are home to planets, and the discovery of additional exoplanets has accelerated continuously since 1992.

Star systems
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To date, 4.375 exoplanets have been discovered, 2.662 by NASA's Kepler space telescope on its mission to the Milky Way between 2009 and 2018. Other exoplanets have been discovered with NASA's TESS telescope. ESA, the European Space Agency, also aims to launch its PLATO spacecraft by 2026 to find new exoplanets.

The habitable zones around the star systems "The Five Kepler" they are between 0,4 and 1,5 astronomical units (UA, the distance from the Earth to the sun), and from distances between 0,6 and 2 AU from the center of their stars.

These star systems will be the focus of much interest in the next decade, with the launch of several new telescopes for hunting exoplanets.

And in not too long, I hope, we will end up with images of other "blue planets" like ours.

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