A team of scientists from the United Arab Emirates and the United States analyzed data collected by the Kepler space telescope on nine planetary systems. Experts took into account the mass of stars, their brightness and the distance of the exoplanet from its sun.
The research is published in the journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. According to Science Alert, experts were able to figure out which systems with double stars could have potentially habitable planets.
They used special equations to test the potential habitability of exoplanets. As it turned out, the presence of a giant planet in many of the considered systems does not exclude the existence of potentially inhabited worlds.
For example, there are gas giants in the Kepler-16 and Kepler-1647 systems. They are poorly located to create a stable habitat. But in Kepler-34, Kepler-35, Kepler-38, Kepler-64 and Kepler-413 there may be planets suitable for the existence of life. The most favorable are Kepler-35, -38 and -64.
Now astronomers need to identify planets with suitable orbits. In the future, it may turn out to calculate how much light radiation they receive from the parent stars.
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