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I need help with a novel.?

Hi, I'm writing a science fiction novel. The setting is going to be somewhere on a moon of a gas giant in the habitable zone. I don't want to make a fake Solar System for a real one will seem more interesting. Can somebody please send me a list of Gas giants in their parent star's habitable zone. (Preferably one that is about the age of our own system and no further than 50 light years away, Thanks!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Gliese 581 g (pron.: /ˈɡliːzə/), also Gl 581 g or GJ 581 g, is an unconfirmed extrasolar planet claimed to orbit the red dwarf star Gliese 581, 22 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Libra It is the sixth planet purportedly discovered orbiting the star.

    Gliese 581 g has attracted attention because it is near the middle of the habitable zone of its parent star. That means it could sustain liquid water on its surface and could potentially host life similar to that on Earth. (The planet is expected to have temperatures around −37 to −12 °C, however). If it is a rocky planet, favorable atmospheric conditions could permit the presence of liquid water, a necessity for all known life, on its surface. With a mass 3.1 to 4.3 times Earth's, Gliese 581 g is considered a super-Earth and is the planet closest in size to Earth known in a habitable zone. This makes it the most Earth-like Goldilocks planet found outside the Solar System and the exoplanet with the greatest recognized potential for harboring life.[

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  • hobo
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    8 years ago

    Might want to ask this in the science section of Yahoo answers. They would be more likely to know about this than the people that lurk in books and authors.

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