New work suggests that planets orbiting double stars might have a small edge when it comes to supporting life.
It seems that closely matched stars that orbit each other in between 10 and 30 days tend to cancel out each other's solar winds of deadly radiation, thus making rocky planets in the system's habitable zone more likely to develop life.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
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