Reported by Intenational Business Times, Monday (4/30/2012), a team of astronomers from Cornell University using the help of infrared Spectrograph named TripleSpec at Mount Palomar Observatory, California. The findings indicate that the third planet orbiting the host stars in their habitable zones are called Zones or the habitable zone. The name was given by a team of astronomers since their orbital allows the availability of water as well as the specific point that they believe could potentially life presence.
Host stars are given a code KOI 463.01, 812.03 and KOI KOI 854.01. The code is made by a team that refers to the characteristics of M dwarf stars with temperatures cooler, smaller and dimmer than the sun.
TripleSpec team of astronomers developed techniques to measure metallicities and temperatures in M dwarf stars. Using data from TripleSpec, a team of astronomers discovered three planets like Earth that has the size, mass and temperature are also found on Earth.
KOI 463.01, 812.03 and KOI KOI 854.01 was in the area between the constellation or constellations Cygnus and Lyra. "There's a pretty strong argument that most of the planets in the universe is very likely as a planet habitable zone (habitable)," said Jamie Lyold associate professor of astronomy at Cornell University.
"If we see signs of oxygen in the atmosphere of these planets, it will be a major step towards the identification of extraterrestrial life (life beyond planet Earth in this universe)," he added.
