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Writing Excuses 7.32: Astronomy 101 for Writers

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The Goldilocks Zone

Around a star, there's what's called the habitable zone. It's basically the liquid water zone. And since liquid water is essential to life as we know it, that means that's where we could find planets that we could live on. If a planet had like incredibly strong gravity exerting extra pressure on its water, would that change the size of that liquid water zone?

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