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{{redirect|Goldilocks Zone|the more general principle|Goldilocks principle}}
{{redirect|Habitable zone|the galactic zone|Galactic habitable zone}}
{{short description|Zone around a star with strong possibilities for stable liquid water on a suitable planet}}
(contracted; show full) CHZ planet, including some systems that consist of multiple CHZ planets.<ref name="NYT-20150106-DB">{{cite news |last=Overbye |first=Dennis |authorlink=Dennis Overbye |title=As Ranks of Goldilocks Planets Grow, Astronomers Consider What's Next |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/science/space/as-ranks-of-goldilocks-planets-grow-astronomers-consider-whats-next.html |date=January 6, 2015 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=January 6, 2015}}</ref> Most such planets, being 
either [[super-Earth]]s or [[gas giant]]s, are more massive than Earth, because such [[extrasolar planet|planets]] are [[sampling bias|easier to detect]]. On November 4, 2013, astronomers reported, based on [[Kepler (spacecraft)|''Kepler'']] data, that there could be as many as 40 billion [[terrestrial planet|Earth-sized]] [[exoplanet|planets]] orbiting in the habitable zones of [[solar analog|Sun-like stars]] and [[red dwarf]]s in the [[Milky Way]].<ref name="NYT-20131104">{{ci(contracted; show full){{authority control}}

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