Cool Technology of the Day: Class 'M' Planet Discovered
It might be a place that only a lichen or pond scum could love, but astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a very distant planet capable of harboring water on its surface, thus potentially making it a home for plant or animal life.
“This is the first exoplanet that has the right conditions for water to exist on its surface.”
... ((it lies)) smack in the middle of the so-called Goldilocks zone, where the heat from the star is neither too cold nor too hot for water to exist in liquid form on its surface “This is really the first Goldilocks planet,” Dr. Butler said.
New York Times
“This is the first exoplanet that has the right conditions for water to exist on its surface.”
... ((it lies)) smack in the middle of the so-called Goldilocks zone, where the heat from the star is neither too cold nor too hot for water to exist in liquid form on its surface “This is really the first Goldilocks planet,” Dr. Butler said.
New York Times