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Q: What distance from the sun is considered the habitable zone?
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What is the distance of the habitable zone from a red dwarf star?

About 0.5 AU, or about half the distance from Earth to the sun.


How the spatial relationship between the Earth and the Sun makes the Earth a habitable planet?

The Earth is in the `habitable` zone, the right distance from the sun for life to exist in the form we are familiar with. This is because the temperature is just right for there to be liquid water on the planets surface - essential for life. If the Earth were too close, the water would boil off, too far and it would be permanently frozen.


How many earths can enter in the sun?

If by "Earth" you mean a planet that human beings would find very habitable (breathable atmosphere and not too hot or cold), I'd say one or maybe two. Look up "habitable zone" or "Goldilocks zone" for more information. There is some debate about the extent of a habitable zones.


How far is the nearest habitable planet?

In the near future the Sun will start to grow and Earth will start to die. As the Sun grows the habitable zone will move further outwards. Mars's polar ice caps will start to melt and cover the planet with liquid water as Earth's water evaporates. If we have the technology when this happens we will be able to travel to Mars and live there until the habitable zone leaves Mars. After that happens we will have to live on asteroids and other moons. Almost all the inner planets will incinerate then the Sun will shrink and grow and shrink again until the Sun's core collapses and explodes. So the closest habitable planet will be Mars which is 50 million miles away.


What does it mean for a planet to be in the habitabal zone?

Planets too close to the Sun would be too hot for large amounts of liquid water; those too far away would be too cold and icy. The Earth is said to orbit within the habitable zone where liquid water allows for an abundance of life. The solar system itself is also believed to orbit the galactic nucleus at a favorable distance from it.

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What is the distance of the habitable zone from a red dwarf star?

About 0.5 AU, or about half the distance from Earth to the sun.


How can you humans find out if a place might support life?

If We are talking about planets, That planet need to me in what they called Habitable Zone What Is a Habitable Zone A Habitable Zone is the distance between a Star (Sun) and a planet, in which a planet like Earth can maintain liquid (water) and a distance which can allow water not to freeze or evaporates.


Is Uranus in the habitable zone?

No. The habitable zone starts near the Earth, a few million miles inside its orbit around the sun and ends just beyond the orbit of Mars. Uranus is much too far away in a colder region of space due to a decreased radiation from the Sun.


Earth is one of the planets that orbit the sun?

Yes, it is the third nearest and the most habitable zone in the solar system.


Is Mars not in the sun's goldilocks zone?

Not at the moment. Currently it is just on the outer (cool) edge of the habitable zone [See Link]. However, give a couple of million years this will change as the Sun gets hotter.


How the spatial relationship between the Earth and the Sun makes the Earth a habitable planet?

The Earth is in the `habitable` zone, the right distance from the sun for life to exist in the form we are familiar with. This is because the temperature is just right for there to be liquid water on the planets surface - essential for life. If the Earth were too close, the water would boil off, too far and it would be permanently frozen.


Can a blue sun support habitable planets?

If they have the perfect distance like super far away lol =)


Why is the earth a habitable planet?

Earth is habitable because of our natural resources. Water, and land capable of growing food. Our atmosphere is perfect for life. The sun is the perfect distance away.


How many earths can enter in the sun?

If by "Earth" you mean a planet that human beings would find very habitable (breathable atmosphere and not too hot or cold), I'd say one or maybe two. Look up "habitable zone" or "Goldilocks zone" for more information. There is some debate about the extent of a habitable zones.


What is the range of distance that earth can be from the sun and it would not be too cold or too hot to survive as humans?

we're right in the middle of it. earth could not get any closer or any farther away without hte temeprature being affected. this is the so-called 'habitable zone' of our star, where anywhere inside it water would boil and anywhere outside it would freeze. if our planet moved out of the habitable zone, it is unlikely even bacteria would survive.


How far is the nearest habitable planet?

In the near future the Sun will start to grow and Earth will start to die. As the Sun grows the habitable zone will move further outwards. Mars's polar ice caps will start to melt and cover the planet with liquid water as Earth's water evaporates. If we have the technology when this happens we will be able to travel to Mars and live there until the habitable zone leaves Mars. After that happens we will have to live on asteroids and other moons. Almost all the inner planets will incinerate then the Sun will shrink and grow and shrink again until the Sun's core collapses and explodes. So the closest habitable planet will be Mars which is 50 million miles away.


When will the world when?

the world will end not when it will end when the sun implodes. implodes mean that it will collapse on its self and the outer layers will keep expanding until it explodes and the inner core implodes on its self. in conclusion when the sun explodes and the core implodes the earth will maybe I'm not saying if but I'm saying maybe will die in a fiery death or it will lose its gravitational pull on the sun and leave the goldilocks zone which me call (the habitable zone) and zone will eathier begin a new ice age ir it will find another star and eathier land in the habitable zone (goldilocks zone) or just a plain mars.