Now we are going to investigate habitability zones on the scale of the c Milky Way Galaxy. The tw...
Now we are going to investigate habitability zones on the scale of the c Milky Way Galaxy. The two competing factors that we will look at are 1) the likelihood of planets forming (since we assume that life needs a planct to evolve on), and 2) the likelihood of life being wiped out by a cosmic catastrophe Open up the Milky Way Habitabilty Explorer. Each of the two factors described above are illustrated in a graph as a function of distance from the galactic center. Question 15: What factor influences the rate of planet formation? How does this vary as a function of a star system's distance from the center of the Milky Way?
Now we are going to investigate habitability zones on the scale of the c Milky Way Galaxy. The two competing factors that we will look at are 1) the likelihood of planets forming (since we assume that life needs a planct to evolve on), and 2) the likelihood of life being wiped out by a cosmic catastrophe Open up the Milky Way Habitabilty Explorer. Each of the two factors described above are illustrated in a graph as a function of distance from the galactic center. Question 15: What factor influences the rate of planet formation? How does this vary as a function of a star system's distance from the center of the Milky Way?