Goldilocks Stars Are Best Places to Look for Life

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