Habitable Zone

The Goldilocks Zone

The habitable zone (or Goldilocks zone) is the range of orbital distances from a star where liquid water could exist on a rocky planet's surface — "not too hot, not too cold, just right." Earth sits comfortably within the Sun's habitable zo

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