Does life exist in a binary star system?

The probability of survival on the planets orbiting the binary star system is quite large - This is not the surprising conclusion of scientists but that of an American female student.

Joni Clark, a female student at the University of New Mexico (USA), has simulated several types of star systems, including binary star systems and made interesting conclusions. She wanted to verify which star system has the greatest probability of survival.

The young female researcher found that in the binary star system , the gravitational pull of the two stars (two suns) rotated around each other, reducing the intensity of the wind, the dangerous star and thus increasing the ability. Form water sources and survive in such environments.

Stellar winds (in the solar system are called solar winds) are streams of particles emitted by stars, including mainly protons and electrons with energies from 0.5 keV to 1 GeV. If there are two identical stars in the system, their speed and temperature are smaller than in the case of a star in the center of the system. Therefore, the star wind of the two stars is weaker. Clark affirmed that some P-planets, ie planets orbiting the two stars, were affected by star wind 0.7% less than the earth today.

After creating several models of different star systems, Clark and astrophysicist Paul Mason (University of Texas) came to the conclusion that if each star in a binary star system has at least 80% size. The size of our sun and both rotate close to each other, there is the possibility of life on planets near them.

Such a binary star system was discovered in January 2012 - it is the Kepler-35b star system, 1600 light years from Earth with two stars roughly the size of the sun. Another example is the Kepler-47 star system, 5000 light years from Earth.