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on Twitter A new-found planet is in a ‘just-right’ location
around its star where liquid water could possibly exist on the
planet’s surface. A team of international astronomers have
discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth orbiting a nearby
star in a habitable zone, where it isn’t too hot or too cold for
liquid water to exist. The planet, GJ 667Cc, has an orbital
period of about 28 days and with a mass about 4.5 times that of
the Earth. The star that it orbits is quite interesting. It is
an M-class dwarf star and is a member of a triple star system
and appears to be quite different from our Sun, relatively
lacking in metallic elements. The team said this discovery
demonstrates that habitable planets could form in a greater
variety of environments than previously believed. “This was
expected to be a rather unlikely star to host planets,” said
Steven Vogt from UC Santa Cruz, one of the scientists involved
in the discovery. “Yet there they ar