Goldilocks zone

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noun Astronomy.

a zone around a star having temperatures and other conditions that can support life on planets: Mars is thought to lie on the outer edge of the sun's Goldilocks zone.

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Also called habitable zone .

Origin of Goldilocks zone

After the fairy-tale character Goldilocks

Words nearby Goldilocks zone

gold, golden, Goldi, Goldie's fern, goldilocks, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”, Goldilocks zone, Golding, gold leaf, Goldman, Goldmark, gold medal

How to use Goldilocks zone in a sentence

So Proxima b, in order for it to be in that Goldilocks zone, actually is a lot closer to Proxima Centauri than Earth is to the sun.
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Strong currents and winds, however, mean any debris could be drifting up to 31 miles a day eastward, away from the impact zone.
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For instance, Best Buy has over 40 million members in its customer loyalty program, Reward Zone.
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By drawing boundaries against wrongful conduct, law provides a protective zone of freedom within those boundaries.
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South Korean activists are already planning to loft them over the Demilitarized Zone in balloons.
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Among the scores of bystanders watching their small town turn into war zone was a Marine veteran who was close with Stone.
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Worst danger zone, the open sea, now traversed, but on land not yet out of the wood.
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When well stained, a delicate hyaline peripheral zone can be distinguished.
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A plaque upon a red corpuscle is surrounded by a colorless zone rather than by a distinct blue body.
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It was of a cylindrical shape, having a deep zone at the equator, and a containing capacity of about 300 feet.
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We there meet with the fruits of the torrid zone, and near them the apple and the peach of Europe.
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