Are there goldilocks zones for tidally locked planets? (lemm.ee)

submitted 8 months ago by exocrinous@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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A tidally locked planet does not rotate in relation to its sun. One side is always day, one, always night. This is caused by tidal forces pulling all planets towards this same equilibrium, so it's completely stable once it does occur..a tidally locked planet at an earthlike distance from the sun would be scorching heat on one side, freezing ice on the other.

What about at different distances? Is there a band of orbital distance where the night side of a tidally locked planet is warm enough for liquid water? Or one far away enough that the day side can have oceans?

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

One thing that might also play a huge factor is the planet tilt compared to its host star, like Uranus' spin. Or would that have a different name? Pole locked?

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