🟦 The Habitable Zone, Exoplanets, and Detection Methods

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If a planet is discovered to be in the habitable zone does that mean it automatically has life?

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No

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Habitable zones are the regions around a star where water on the surface of a planet is likely to be liquid.

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Regions around a star where water on the surface of a planet is likely to be liquid.

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Stars with spectral type of O, B, A and F are typically ruled out for habitable life. This is the case because...

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Their lifetime is much too short to give life a chance to evolve.

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Which of these habitable zones is associated with having the largest mass star in the center?

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Which of these habitable zones is associated with having the smallest mass star in the center?

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Which of these has the widest habitable zone?

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This is a model of the system Pegasi-51. A star with a planet b orbiting around it in the constellation Pegasus. Select the strongest claim for whether this planet is suitable for life.

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This planet is not suitable for life. It is located too close to the star, thus it will cause boiling off and evaporation of any water.

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Is the planet HD 93083 b suitable for life?

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This planet is suitable for life. It is located in mostly in the habitable zone, thus it will have the proper temperatures to support liquid water.

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The beauty of finding exoplanets with the transit method is that the amount of starlight blocked tells you ___

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how big the planet is

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Which has a more elliptical path? Options: comets, planets

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comets