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Extra Solar Planets New Planets Discovered |
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A planet in the habitable zone ..
By refining the orbit of the
planet Gliese 581 d, first discovered in 2007, a
team of astronomers has
shown that it lies well within the habitable
zone, where liquid water oceans
could exist. This diagram shows the distances of
the planets in the Solar
System (upper row) and in the Gliese 581 system
(lower row), from their
respective stars (left). The habitable zone is
indicated as the blue area,
showing that Gliese 581 d is located inside the
habitable zone around its
low-mass red star.
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