Cornell's Sagan Institute Identifies 45 Candidate Habitable Rocky Exoplanets to Guide Future Observations

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Researchers at Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute ranked 45 rocky exoplanets most likely to be habitable near their stars' habitable zones (about 24 if a narrower zone is used) to guide future JWST and Roman Space Telescope observations of Proxima Centauri b and TRAPPIST-1 d–g, noting that interstellar travel is currently impossible, habitability depends on star color and orbital shape, and coauthors Abigail Bohl and Gillis Lowry (with Budassi's diagrams) see this as a first step toward detecting life-like signatures.