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Every third planet around the most numerous stars in our galaxy – red dwarfs – is potentially habitable. About this, as he writes New Atlasaccording to a new study.
Such conclusions were made after studying data from the Gaia and Kepler telescopes. The combined data made it possible to extract information about the orbits of previously discovered exoplanets, and about a third of them turned out to be “compatible” with life.
Note that red dwarfs are the most common stars in our galaxy. They are the size of Jupiter and so the planets can move around them in closer orbits without incinerating them. According to the study, a third of the studied exoplanets have more or less circular orbits, and this makes them suitable candidates for the role of incubators for life.
Since there are billions of M-type dwarf stars in our galaxy, there could be hundreds of millions of potentially habitable worlds in our galaxy, scientists believe.
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