Karjalan

Karjalan t1_ixfelu7 wrote

Yeah. All stars have a "habitable zone", which is, roughly, the distance a planet would have to be to not be too hot or cold for liquid water to form.

Many other things come into play, the amount of stellar radiation beyond heat, the size of the planet, the planets atmosphere composition, and in the case of many smaller stars, if a planet is tidally locked.

Math/simulations of tidally locked planets have shown that it is possible to get a comfortable temperature and have areas of liquid water due to convection and the overall atmosphere composition and density... But it's obviously a different scenario to what we have on earth.

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