English Circumstellar habitable zone Cited by user Polyamorph on 28 Feb 2017 In astronomy and astrobiology, the circumstellar habitable zone (CHZ), or simply the habitable zone, is the range of orbits around a star within which a planetary…
English Milky Way Cited by user Polyamorph on 28 Feb 2017 The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. The descriptive "milky" is derived from the appearance from Earth of the galaxy – a band of light seen in the…
Finnish Proxima Centauri b Cited by user 87.100.224.20 on 26 Sep 2016 Proxima Centauri b (mys nimell Proxima b) on eksoplaneetta, joka kiert Proxima Centauria.
English Earth Proxima Cited by user BatteryIncluded on 21 Sep 2016 Earth Proxima refers the closest confirmed exoplanet to Earth that exhibits similar conditions to our planet, therefore maximizing its chances of being habitable to…
English List of extrasolar candidates for liquid water Cited by user Alumnum on 04 Sep 2016 Most known extrasolar planetary systems appear to have very different compositions from the Solar System, though there is probably sample bias arising from the detection…
English Exoplanet Cited by user SiBerman on 26 Aug 2016 An exoplanet (BrE /ˈek.səʊˌplæn.ɪt/ AmE /ˌek.soʊˈplæn.ɪt/) or extrasolar planet is a planet that orbits a star other than the Sun.
English Binary mass function Cited by user Gap9551 on 25 Aug 2016 In astronomy, the binary mass function or simply mass function is a function that constrains the mass of the unseen component (typically a star or exoplanet) in a single-l…
English List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates Cited by user MarioProtIV on 24 Aug 2016 This list of nearest terrestrial exoplanets candidates contains possible terrestrial ("rocky") exoplanets at a distance of up to 50 light-years from the Solar System…
English List of nearest exoplanets Cited by user Pulu on 24 Aug 2016 From the total of known exoplanets orbiting around different stars, only a small fraction are located in the vicinity of the Solar System.
English Solar System Cited by user Serendipodous on 24 Aug 2016 The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system comprising the Sun and the objects that orbit it, either directly or indirectly.