Are There Planets More Habitable Than Earth?

Earth probably isn’t the best place in the universe. It turns out there might be even better places to live that are even more suitable for life: superhabitable planets.

Hosted by: Reid Reimers

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Sources:

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2013.1088
https://www.britannica.com/science/habitable-zone
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.3413.pdf
http://homepages.uc.edu/~sitkoml/AdvancedAstro/21_CHZs/CHZs.pdf
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/startype.html
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/ultraviolet-superflares-exoplanet-habitability-young-red-dwarfs-06522.html
http://www.astronomy.villanova.edu/lward/index-old.htm
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/M/Main+Sequence+Lifetime
https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2014/01/27/what-makes-a-planet-superhabitable/
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/

Images:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:BlueMarble-2001-2002.jpg
https://www.nasa.gov/ames/kepler/habitable-zones-of-different-stars
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11538
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1349/giant-red-stars-may-heat-frozen-worlds-into-habitable-planets/
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20154
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12144
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan-Keenan_spectral_classification.svg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA-RedDwarfPlanet-ArtistConception-20130728.jpg
http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-desert-sand-dunes-road-at-sunset/639828572
http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-snowy-peaks/121716604
http://www.thinkstockphotos.com/image/stock-photo-scuba-diver-swimming-near-a-school-of-fish/57577096
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler442b(comp).jpg
https://www.videoblocks.com/video/cinemagraph-of-volcano-erupting-by-ocean-in-hawaii-by3dh_buzjd9ukn9o
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30687
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler-22b,_Kepler-69c,_Kepler-62e,_Kepler-62f_and_Earth.jpg
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12850

Thumbnail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kepler186f-ArtistConcept-20140417.jpg