<story><title>Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star</title><url>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valarauca1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m imaging an age of discovery-esque expeditions to the center of the &lt;i&gt;Solar Plane&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;d likely have radically different definitions of poles. One hot enough to melt lead, one cold enough to freeze C02.</text></item><item><author>rezashirazian</author><text>This is the first time I&amp;#x27;m reading about this concept and I find it fascinating. If there was to be intelligent life on an eye ball like planet the cultural, mythological and theological aspects of having a thin habitable strip of land sandwiched between ice and fire would be captivating.</text></item><item><author>runesoerensen</author><text>Cool so it&amp;#x27;s an &amp;quot;eyeball&amp;quot; planet? &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nautil.us&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nautil.us&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-alien...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mjhoy</author><text>The fun stuff is buried in footnote [4]:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The actual suitability of this kind of planet to support water and Earth-like life is a matter of intense but mostly theoretical debate. Major concerns that count against the presence of life are related to the closeness of the star. For example gravitational forces probably lock the same side of the planet in perpetual daylight, while the other side is in perpetual night. The planet&amp;#x27;s atmosphere might also slowly be evaporating or have more complex chemistry than Earth’s due to stronger ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, especially during the first billion years of the star’s life. However, none of the arguments has been proven conclusively and they are unlikely to be settled without direct observational evidence and characterisation of the planet’s atmosphere. Similar factors apply to the planets recently found around TRAPPIST-1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>room271</author><text>Check out Proxima by Stephen Baxter:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Proxima-Stephen-Baxter&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;045146771X&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.com&amp;#x2F;Proxima-Stephen-Baxter&amp;#x2F;dp&amp;#x2F;045146771X&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a Sci-fi book about life on Proxima Centauri and includes the idea you mentioned.&lt;p&gt;(Also a really good read!)</text></comment>
<story><title>Planet Found in Habitable Zone Around Nearest Star</title><url>https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1629/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>valarauca1</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m imaging an age of discovery-esque expeditions to the center of the &lt;i&gt;Solar Plane&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;d likely have radically different definitions of poles. One hot enough to melt lead, one cold enough to freeze C02.</text></item><item><author>rezashirazian</author><text>This is the first time I&amp;#x27;m reading about this concept and I find it fascinating. If there was to be intelligent life on an eye ball like planet the cultural, mythological and theological aspects of having a thin habitable strip of land sandwiched between ice and fire would be captivating.</text></item><item><author>runesoerensen</author><text>Cool so it&amp;#x27;s an &amp;quot;eyeball&amp;quot; planet? &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nautil.us&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nautil.us&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;forget-earth_likewell-first-find-alien...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>mjhoy</author><text>The fun stuff is buried in footnote [4]:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The actual suitability of this kind of planet to support water and Earth-like life is a matter of intense but mostly theoretical debate. Major concerns that count against the presence of life are related to the closeness of the star. For example gravitational forces probably lock the same side of the planet in perpetual daylight, while the other side is in perpetual night. The planet&amp;#x27;s atmosphere might also slowly be evaporating or have more complex chemistry than Earth’s due to stronger ultraviolet and X-ray radiation, especially during the first billion years of the star’s life. However, none of the arguments has been proven conclusively and they are unlikely to be settled without direct observational evidence and characterisation of the planet’s atmosphere. Similar factors apply to the planets recently found around TRAPPIST-1.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>AdamN</author><text>Until the 20th century, no human had been on either pole of Earth either.</text></comment>