A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the cerca for life.
According to a recente study, tens of billions of planets around red dwarfs are likely capable of containing liquid water, dramatically increasing the potential to find signs of life somewhere other than Earth.
Red dwarfs are stars that are fainter, più fresco, dispositivo di raffreddamento and less massive than the sun. These stars, which typically also live longer than Class G stars like the sun, are thought to make up about 80 percent of the stars in the Milky Way, astronomers...
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