‘Super-Earths’ and ‘Habitable Zones’

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Are 'Super-Earths' and 'Habitable Zones' Misleading Terms?

There's been a lot of buzz lately about planets in habitable zones, particularly with the recent discovery of an Earth-sized planet orbiting a star in a zone where liquid water could exist.

But Geoff Marcy, an exoplanet researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, urges the astronomy community to adopt caution over the term 'habitable zone' Earth is still the only place in the Universe that we know has life. His team recently wrote about this in a survey paper looking at worlds close to Earth's size around Sun-like stars.

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The subject is beautiful and inspiring.