Astrobiology experts recently launched a new map of the Milky Way Galaxy, showing that around 1.2 percent of the stars in it are capable of supporting life.Because the Milky Way Galaxy has billions of stars, then the numbers 1,2 percent can represent several million stars. It is said that the planet is in the stars capable of supporting life. As quoted from Softpedia, Tuesday (12/7/2011).
Scientists estimated that temperature in the stars is quite suitable for supporting water on a planet around it.
The study was based on a new idea in the world of astronomy, which mentions that life exists only in designated areas in certain regions of the Milky Way Galaxy. The crux of this theory, mentioning that the possibilities of every life are different, if it is located near the Galactic Center as well as outside the Galactic Center. Zones in the Milky Way galaxy that could support life are located about 30 light years from the Galactic core.
Michael Gowanlock, experts from the University of Hawaii, said that the Galactic habitable zone that life is more complex than the predicted.
"We estimate that around 1.2 percent of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy to support life," wrote Gowanlock in arXiv online journal.
In addition, the experts would also add that the supernova explosion, which was previously believed to be able to annihilate life on another planet, if it happens on the inside of the Galaxy, as it turns out the remnants of his legacy is capable of supporting life is more complex, by forming the planets with the ideal distance
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