The Hope of More Class-M Planets
It looks like there are potentially 11 star systems (or "habitable stellar systems") for us Earthlings to check out in the next few hundred years...or few thousand years.
Margaret Turnbull of the Carnegie Institution in
Washington singled out eleven "habitable stellar systems" out of the
estimated 400 billion stars in our galaxy. Five of them are most likely
to garner results for those searching for radio signals from
intelligent civilizations and six are most likely to reward astronomers
trying to actually see an earth-like planet.Turnbull said she limited her selection to stars most like our own
Sun, using criteria such as how old the star is and how much iron
content it has.She said, "These are places I'd want to live if God were to put our planet around another star."
I am a huge science fiction fan and I am always interested in what NASA or other space agencies are up to. In recent years, they have been doing a lot of great space projects like the Mars Rovers and other such research. It excites me because I would like to travel in space and, who knows, I may get my chance.
I love space - and not because William Shatner is the coolest Starfleet Captain ever.
