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August, 2018. Recently Hawaii's Keck Telescope Performed Spectral Analysis of Kepler Habitable Zone Planets. The results indicate the best possible scenario that scientists have been hoping for, the Keck Tea, has clearly identified many trace elements that support life on earth. The findings indicate that we live in a universe full of interesting new planetary systems. We find these systems to be elementally abundant with Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, Iron and the footprints of Life.
Carbon and Oxygen were found to be enriched in stars with planetary systems. These exciting results indicate that many exotic worlds are formed in carbon rich environments. Most generally we find that the elemental abundances in planetary systems will generally align with that of their host stars. Data from the Kepler Space Observatory suggests that there may be more than two billion planets in our galaxy capable of supporting life. Possibly 10% - 20% of planets are potentially Earth-like. Given that the possibility of a planet being habitable is dependent upon the planet residing with-in the habitable zone of it's star and that the temperature and pressure conditions of the host star and planetary system will allow liquid water to exist.
The spectral analysis results show a best case scenario that enthusiasts have always hoped for, along with recent results from the Kepler Mission we have learned that we live in a universe abundant with planetary systems alike to those in our own star system. Nature does throw a little diversity into the picture though, being that planetary and star systems are not all alike, many planets have been found commonly around binary and trinary star systems that's adds to the complex and diverse results that we will find!
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