• Question: Have you made any recent discoveries concerning planets in outer space?

    Asked by plum4plum to Ravi on 21 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Ravi Kopparapu

      Ravi Kopparapu answered on 21 Jun 2013:


      We made some calculations to find out where Earth-like planets with right kind of atmospheres can exist. Now we know that there are many planets that are not too hot, not too cold and are at a right distance from their star.
      We call them “potentially habitable planets”. That means, these planets may have life on them (we are not sure yet).

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