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An artist’s illustration of a planet in the habitable zone of a star. Planets in their stars’ habitable zones likely have liquid water on their surfaces. Credit: Cal Poly Pomona/B. Binder, edited
A team of researchers examined stars that are close enough to Earth that future telescopes could take images of planets in their so-called habitable zones, defined as orbits where the planets could have liquid water on their surfaces.Any images of planets will be single points of light and will not directly show surface features like clouds, continents, and oceans.
Binder and her colleagues began with a list of stars that are close enough to Earth that future ground and space-based telescopes could make images of planets in their habitable zone. These future telescopes include the Habitable Worlds Observatory and ground-based extremely large telescopes.Based on X-ray observations of some of these stars using data from Chandra and XMM-Newton, Binder’s team examined which stars could host planets with hospitable conditions for life to form and prosper.
, while only a handful of planets or planet candidates could be less than about twice as massive as Earth.
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