In looking for life beyond Earth, astronomers seek planets in stars’ “habitable zones” (nicknamed the “Goldilocks zone”) where temperatures are just right for life-nurturing liquid water to exist on planets’ surfaces. An emerging idea is that there are “Goldilocks stars”: not too hot, not too cool, not too violent to host life-friendly planets.
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Source: NASA Goddard Center