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Researchers are studying the potential of habitable planets forming within multi-star systems. Research is studying a binary star system 1,000 light-years away to look for habitable planets and, as have discovered, habitable planets could in fact exist.
Alien bombshell as scientists find five double-sun planets that could support life
The team used NASA s Kepler space telescope to look for planets with liquid water somewhere on their surface – and identified a planet they think is the best candidate to host life
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11 MAY 2021
We have precisely one data point against which to measure exoplanets for habitability: Earth. As far as we know, life has evolved only on this one pale blue dot, orbiting a single star in the middle of a spiral arm of an otherwise unremarkable galaxy.
Most stars in the Milky Way, however, are not like the Sun, hanging around in space all alone. Instead, up to 85 percent of stars may have at least one companion locked in mutual orbit (so it s nice that the Sun has us to keep it company).
This, naturally, complicates the search for life, since potential habitability is easier to assess around single stars. Binary companions bring additional gravitational interactions and stellar radiation to muck things up for any microbes attempting to squirm out of the primordial ooze.