Sun may not be best star to support life
DEC 02, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023892
Science News : Want to make a planet that can sustain carbon-based life? Don’t park it in orbit around a sunlike star."For the long term, the sun may not be the best star,” says Edward Guinan of Villanova University in Pennsylvania, coauthor of a paper reporting a new model about the suitability of planets for life . Smaller, cooler stars called orange dwarf stars might be the most hospitable, he says.
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