June
25
/ 2013
A team of astronomers have discovered that three planets within a planetary system discovered by the ESO’s 3.6 metre telescope in Chile lie in the habitable zone around the star Gliese 667C, holding possibilities that they may have the presence of life. It is the first system found with a fully packed habitable zone. Gliese 667C lies 22 light years away from Earth in the constellation of Scorpius and is just over one third of the mass of the Sun. Prior studies had revealed that the star had three planets orbiting it, but this latest study uncovered three more. "We knew that the star had three planets from previous studies, so we wanted to see whether there were any more,"
