Scientists Discovered Planets Even Better for Life Than Earth

foreign of all the planets in the universe Earth is clearly the best for life right wrong Earth may be great but scientists have discovered a few worlds that could be even better for life behold koi 5715.01 most of the contenders on our super habitable planet list aren't the ones you could visit anytime soon they are very far away the top spot is held by one 3 000 light years away from our solar system koi 575.01 would appear to satisfy the most basic requirement for supporting life it exists in the Goldilocks zone of its star so conditions wouldn't be too hot or too cold for a key life supporting ingredient to exist on its surface liquid water but it would also check off many boxes to be considered super habitable the planetary system it belongs to could be five and a half billion years old which would make it around 1 billion years older than our own solar system and the planet would almost fit the size requirement when looking for super habitable worlds scientists keep their eyes peeled for planets that have a mass up to one and a half times of our planet and they should be about 10 percent larger too this size difference would help the planet retain heat and if its average temperature was about 5 degrees Celsius higher than Earth's well this planet could have even richer biodiversity now being almost double the size of Earth koi 571 5.01 might overshoot this condition a bit besides studies indicate that this planet is actually colder than Earth but there's still hope with the right atmospheric composition a strong greenhouse effect could raise temperatures to the desired level and as far as super habitable worlds go well we're just getting started when it comes to making this planet habitable at this time of year we fall back on what makes us and others feel better shopping you know holiday shopping may give you a rush but it can also sustain the corporate world's Stranglehold on small businesses how do they do that well when you shop online like on Amazon or Walmart well these companies use their sales platforms to promote their products over smaller businesses with competing products unfairly this practice is called self-preferencing because it puts the company's interests ahead of anything or anyone else so how can you help well buy locally you know small business owners account for more than 64 percent of new jobs in the United States so work for the anti-monopoly shift power away from major corporations and help provide more opportunities for your community keeping each other fed and our community is thriving that's how we make a planet habitable approximately 2 700 light years away is Kepler 69c this super Earth could be around 7 billion years old this puts it perfectly in the estimated five to eight billion year old age range for super habitable planets this range is based on the three and a half billion years it took for a complex life to appear on Earth so the best chance for finding life could be on a planet a little older than us only this exoplanet could be a little too big to be super habitable it has a mass almost four times that of Earth a rocky planet this big could have a single colossal continent that would have huge deserts in its Center but the coastline Washed by Kepler's ocean could be your perfect spot to move to our next Super Earth shares a similar name Kepler 1126b except it would be located ever so slightly closer to home yeah this planet is about 2073 light years away and it belongs to a system that is seven and a half billion years old it also orbits a yellow dwarf star much like our own only Kepler 1126b is two and a half times closer to its star than Earth is to the Sun but that's no big deal because the star Kepler 1126b orbits is cooler than ours so the habitable zone would exist in a Range much closer in proximity to it if you aren't feeling this nearness to a scorching hot star there's another Super Earth on our list and it's at a reasonable distance from home speculos 2C is located only 106 light years away not that its proximity gives it any kind of advantage it would still take you well over 200 000 years to travel to this super Earth and that's if you moved at the speed of NASA's Parker solar probe the fastest probe ever launched speculos 2C does look promising though it's about 40 percent larger than Earth there's also the potential for it being a rocky planet just like ours now despite the fact that it also exists in a habitable zone it's red dwarf star is still very small it's only about 15 percent the size of our sun so this planet orbits around its star at a very close distance and this close distance could mean that speculos 2C is tidally locked to its star this super Earth takes eight and a half days to make one full rotation on its axis as well as one orbit around its star that would leave one side of the planet in constant daylight and the other in Endless Night this means that life could be possible in The Terminator Zone the thin strip of land between the two sides we just need to get a better look to find out for sure but with all these candidates so far away wouldn't it be nicer if the planets in our own solar system were a little more habitable well that's a story for another what if [Music]

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Length: 7min 27sec (447 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 21 2022