If a planet that was so large and powerful that it could alter the Earth’s orbit had existed, the planet would have been more hospitable to life.

Modeling our Solar System and determining whether Earth has the ideal circumstances for life to develop have been the focus of recent study from the University of California at Riverside (UCR) in the United States. No, is the response.

An illustration showing the Earth and its habitable regions in several models with the green region representing the Solar System’s “life zone” – (Photo credit: NASA/JPL Caltech)

The planet might have more life and more places to live if its orbit were just a tiny bit more eccentric, or somewhat longer elliptical than it is now.

Jupiter, the first planet in the Solar System with a mass 318 times that of the Earth, has a significant influence on how the Earth orbits the Sun, as numerous earlier investigations have demonstrated.

According to lead author Pam Vervoort of SciTech Daily, “If Jupiter’s position stays the same but the shape of its orbit changes, it might boost the planet’s habitability.”

The fate of Jupiter’s sister planets, particularly the four rocky planets in the “western Solar System,” has been determined throughout the history of the Solar System because Jupiter is too large and has an excessively powerful gravitational field. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are contained in.

The habitable temperature of a planet will occur in the range of 0 to 100 degrees Celsius, which sounds odd but is the temperature at which water is in a liquid condition, according to an article published in the scientific journal Astronomical Journal. however, it’s about the environments in which various life forms can adapt and survive.

If the orbit is more eccentric, more “dead” areas with sub-zero temperatures may have a chance to approach the Sun when it enters the restricted area of the elliptical orbit, resulting in a temperature more conducive to life and extending the Earth’s “habitable zone.”

It may not be good for humans, but if it had happened before the birth of the world, more living forms might have been created and could have evolved more successfully.

In addition to shedding light on the current state of the Earth, this study offers crucial characteristics that astronomers can use to build simulations of other star systems and identify planets that may be habitable.