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CONTENTS Of
PRESENTATION:-
What is habitable exoplanet?
How did scientists identify exoplanet?
Methods used to find exoplanet.
Where are the exoplanets?
How many earth like planets are there?
Why do we search for habitable exoplanets?
Habitable exoplanets nearer to earth.
REFERENCES.
In astronomy and astrobiology
habitable zone means ecosphere ,’life
zone’,is the region around a star where a
planet with sufficient atmospheric
pressure can maintain liquid water on its
surface.
Exo planets or extra solar planets is
any planet that orbits star other than the
sun.
Hence the habitable exoplanet means
Due to great distance and darkness of
space ,exoplanets are small and hard to see.
A handful of ingenious methods have
been used to detect the planets too far away
for us to see.
As the hole is 10 times the size of earths
orbit around the sun the astronomers found
the exoplanets i.e when a planet passes
directly between an observer and the star it
orbits,it blocks some of that star’s light ,so
they conclude that it is an exoplanet.
The most common technique used to find an
exoplanet is dopler effect.
DOPLER EFFECT:-It shows that the star is going
away and then towards us with certain period that
can be deduced such that a planet is going towards
and away from in opposite direction in same period.
Kepler’s mission also helped to find earth like
planetary systems .
Kepler’s space telescope detects planets by the
brightness of the star by means it also determines
the size and shape of the orbits of these planets .
 To date ,more than 1500 exoplanets have
been found while thousands of are still
awaiting confirmations.

 The majority of exoplanets lie inside the

white circle ,that is our milky way galaxy.

 As the technology advances the circle

ineivetibly grows.
HOW MANY EARTH LIKE PLANETS
HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED?
 Nasa’s spitzer space telescope identified seven earth
sized exoplanets near the ultra cool dwarf star named
Trappist-1.
 These planets are drawing attention because of their
location,what has been deemed as habitable zone.

 The most earth like exoplanet is Kepler-452b,the first

truly earth sized alien planet ever found in stars
habitable zone it is due to where liquid water could
exists. It is nearest in size and temperature to earths
surface temperature.
It is extremely interest to see how often planets
look like.

More than 99%of the known planets do not orbit

our own sun.

The more we understand about other planets the

more we can understand about our planet.

If we find lots of planets like earth….we’ll know

likely that we are not alone and that someday we
might be able to join other intelligent life in the
universe .
The nearest exoplanet as close as 12 light years
away.

On august 24,2016,astronomers announced the

discovery .
of rocky planet in the habitable zone of PROXIMA
CENTUERI .

The closest star to earth.

And there are also other planets which resembles

to earth i.e their surface temperature is closer to
that of earth.
 DISTANCE FROM OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

Distance Lying within the ALL

habitable zone SYSTEMS

<10 LIGHT YEARS 0 2

<20 LIGHT YEARS 6 15

<30 LIGHT YEARS 8 22

<40 LIGHT YEARS 10 24

<50 LIGHT YEARS 11 31

REFERENCES:-
 Science for the curious Discover magazine.
 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoplanet.
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