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Gliese 581 planetary system
Image by Lynette Cook
“If the local stellar neighborhood is a
representative sample of the galaxy as a
whole, our Milky Way could be teeming
with potentially habitable planets.”
S. S. Vogt et al. (2010) The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1
M  planet in the habitable zone of the nearby M3V star Gliese 581.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 723, p. 954-965.
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g
d
f
Gliese 581 system
Gliese 581: luminosity = 0.012 Sun; ~8 Gyr; ~20 light years away
g
Mercury
Earth
S. S. Vogt et al. (2010) The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1
M  planet in the habitable zone of the nearby M3V star Gliese 581.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 723, p. 954-965.
Gliese 581 planetary system
S. S. Vogt et al. (2010) The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1
M  planet in the habitable zone of the nearby M3V star Gliese 581.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 723, p. 954-965.
e b c
g?
d
f
Gliese 581 system
Modified after … Selsis F. et al. (2007) Habitable planets around the
star Gliese 581? Astron. Astrophys., 476, p. 1373-1387.
Gliese 581 (M3V)
Gliese 581g
Image by Lynette Cook
Does this equation look familiar?!
S. S. Vogt et al. (2010) The Lick-Carnegie Exoplanet Survey: A 3.1
M  planet in the habitable zone of the nearby M3V star Gliese 581.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 723, p. 954-965.