continuously habitable zone
English
Etymology
Noun
continuously habitable zone (plural continuously habitable zones)
- (astrobiology, astronomy) the restricted zone around a sun where the ever shifting habitable zone is always present throughout the main sequence lifetime of that star.
Related terms
- habitable zone
- circumstellar habitable zone (stellar habitable zone / solar habitable zone)
- galactic habitable zone
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