Find a New Earth: Exoplanets and the Habitable Zone
Over 1500 new planetary systems have been discovered, many of which include planets quite different from those in our own Solar System. A key step towards finding "Earth 2.0" will be to identify rocky planets that occupy the "Habitable Zone" of their stars.
Dr. Stephen Kane describes what the idea of a Habitable Zone means and shows examples of planets that lie in their star's Habitable Zone (even if the star is not like our Sun.)
Dr. Stephen Kane is an associate professor of astronomy at San Francisco State University who specializes in exoplanetary science.
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