- Stars and Habitable Planets
Find out what makes a habitable star system: suitable stars, habitable zones around stars, galactic habitable zones, planet formation, and circular orbits.
www.solstation.com/habitable.htm
- The Habitable Zone - PBS Life Beyond Earth
Planets closely orbiting the sun -- where conditions might potentially support life -- is called the Habitable Zone.
www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/alone/habitable.html
- Habitable Zone (HZ) - Internet Encyclopedia of Science
The Habitable Zone: An imaginary spherical shell surrounding a star throughout which the surface temperatures of any planets present might be conducive to the origin and development of life as we know it.
www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/H/habzone.html
- Goldilocks and the Three Planets
Essay by Calvin W. Johnson addressing the climates of terrestrial planets, particularly the formation of Earth's climate which supports life.
www.phys.lsu.edu/faculty/cjohnson/climate.html
- Interstellar Real Estate: Location, Location, Location - Defining the Habitable Zone
Activity where students explore the orbital characteristics a planetary home needs to support Earth-like life forms.
btc.montana.edu/ceres/astrobiology/files/HabitableZone.htm
- The Goldilocks Zone - NASA News
NASA article about how our understanding of how life can exist in extreme environments on Earth has expanded our search for life elsewhere in the Universe.
www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/livingthings/microbes_goldilocks.html
- Our "Goldilocks" Solar System
Sky & Telescope article about one of the hottest research areas in astronomy, modeling, trying to figure out how planets form and what happens after they do.
www.skyandtelescope.com/news/26415724.html
- The Goldilocks Zone - Challenger Center
The Goldilocks Zone is the range of environmental conditions (such as temperature, pressure, acidity, salinity, etc.) that can support life. Find K-12 activities for the classroom that deal with the search for life in the universe.
www.challenger.org/teachers/tmitn/tmitn.cfm?tmitn_id=8&moment;_id=43
- Galactic Habitable Zones
Astrobiology Magazine discusses how our solar system's placement within the Milky Way Galaxy makes in capable of supporting life.
www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name;=News&file;=article&sid;=139...
- Habitable Zone - Wikipedia
Article about the Habitable Zone, a region of space where conditions are favorable for life as it may be found on Earth.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_phenomenon#Goldilocks_phenomenon
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