Do We Live in the Most Exceptional Solar System In The Universe? We're about to find out!
About this episode
The episode explores the search for exoplanets and the conditions necessary for life beyond Earth.
To learn more visit: https://hensonshaving.com/pbs and use code spacetime to get 100 blades for free with your purchase of a Henson Razor. Add both products to your cart for the code to take effect! There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other places in the universe that might harbor life. We only know of one such planet so far: Earth. And so we get particularly excited when we find Earth-mass planets at the right distance from their star to sustain liquid water—also critical for life as we know it. We’ve found lots of those “habitable” worlds. But we also don’t know what factors are really critical to the initial development of life. Maybe star type? We get even more excited if that Earth-mass at the right distance from a Sun-type star. We’ve found a few of those too, and we can infer that there are lots more. Check out the Black Friday Sale at the Space Time Merch Store https://www.pbsspacetime.com/shop PBS Member Stations rely on viewers like you. To support your local station, go to:http://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Sign Up on Patreon to get access to the Space Time Discord! https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Sign up…
People in this episode
Host: Matt O'Dowd
Topics covered
- exoplanets
- habitable worlds
- life in the universe
- solar system
- planetary science
Keywords
- exoplanets
- habitable planets
- life
- solar system
- Earth-mass planets
- star types
- liquid water
Sponsors
Henson Shaving
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