Finding Planets is Easier than we Thought: Part Two – Less Dusty Sun-Like Stars
Yesterday I wrote about young stars that had a habitable zone further away than we thought, and how this would help us spot habitable planets more easily in the future. Today is the second news story this week dealing with finding planets, and it deals with more familiar Sun-like stars and their dusty planetary discs. Dust is both a good thing and a bad thing when looking for planets orbiting other stars. Dust tells us that there is a high likelihood of finding planets, but too much dust blocks out the planets that we look for. Warm dust is worse...