2020-01-25, 01:08 AM
Forget “Earth-Like”—We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
Sean Raymond
Sean Raymond
Quote:Hot eyeball and icy eyeball planets are extreme cases, but any planet that is tidally locked to its star is likely to look very different on its day side and its night side. Differences could come from clouds clustered in certain areas, from preferential melting of ice on the day side or freezing of ice on the night side, or from any number of other possible sources. The galaxy may be littered with wild varieties of eyeball planets! The search for life on other planets will almost certainly start with these worlds.