It is common knowledge that the Sun is the center of the Solar System. Around him, planets orbit, along with a thick asteroid belt, a few meteor fields, and a handful of far distant comets. But that is not the whole story. “Instead, everything orbits around the center of mass …
Read More »Two examples of how to use observations of terrestrial planets orbiting temperate orbits around low-mass stars to test key concepts of planetary habitability
[ad_1] Terrestrial planets in temperate orbits around very low-mass stars are likely to have evolved in a very different way than planets in the solar system, and in particular Earth. However, because these are the first planets that are and will be accessible for deep characterization of the atmosphere, clouds, …
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