The Habitable Zone
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The Habitable Zone

The Habitable Zone is the distance around a star where a planet is just right for water to exist as a liquid on its surface. Not boiling away. Not frozen forever. We call it many names: The Goldilocks Zone (not too hot, not too cold) The Life-friendly Zone The Water Zone
55 Cancri e
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55 Cancri e

Category: Extreme Worlds | Discovered by NASA’s Spitzer & Other Observatories A World That Sparkles in Theory Imagine a planet where mountains might glitter, where the crust could be rich…
Red Giants
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Red Giants

In the main sequence stage (the long middle of a star’s life), a star fuses hydrogen into helium in its core. This fusion produces energy, which pushes outward against gravity’s pull. But once the hydrogen in the core runs out, fusion slows.