Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Possible Life Triple Play

Gliese 667C is a smaller, dimmer star than the Sun, part of a triple star system 22 light years away.  It is, therefore, fairly ordinary-- except it may host life.

Astronomers have found three super Earths orbiting within the star's habitable zone.  That's three potential places for life to have arisen around a single small star.

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