
Illustration of an Earth-like planet orbiting its star
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Half of the celebrities in our galaxy which can be just like the solar may very well be dwelling to an Earth-like planet able to supporting life.
A crew led by Steve Bryson at NASA’s Ames Analysis Heart in California analysed knowledge from the Kepler space telescope, trying to find rocky planets inside the liveable zone of stars the identical dimension as our solar. The liveable zone is discovered on the distance from a star the place it isn’t too scorching or too chilly for liquid water to exist.
Based mostly on detections of …