What Is the Habitable Zone?
NASA
Published at : 16 Oct 2021
There's a helpful concept we use to help understand what distance from a given star you might expect to find planets with liquid water on their surface – liquid water being essential for life as we know it. It's called the habitable zone. Every star has a habitable zone, but where that zone lies is different for stars of different sizes and brightness.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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