Habitable zones (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Habitable zones

Caption

A habitable zone, shown in green here, is defined as the region around a star where liquid water, an essential ingredient for life as we know it, could potentially be present.

Credit

NASA/JPL-Caltech

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