
Explain why a planet might not be in the habitable zone if its orbit is too close or too far away from its parent star.

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The Kepler telescope monitors about stars and can detect the change in their light if a planet passes in front of the star. As of , about exoplanets had been confirmed orbiting stars.
Using the information above, calculate
a the fraction of stars which have planets.

The Kepler telescope monitors about stars and can detect the change in their light if a planet passes in front of the star. As of , about exoplanets had been confirmed orbiting stars.
Using the information above, calculate
b the average number of planets per star.

The Kepler telescope monitors about 150,000 stars and can detect the change in their light if a planet passes in front of the star. As of 20 l 7, about 3,500 exoplanets had been confirmed orbiting 2,600 stars.
From the above data, is the fraction of stars which have planets and the average number of stars per planet is . Explain why, in reality, both these numbers are likely to be larger.


