mesa176750 t1_ixejv7i wrote
Reply to comment by sanitation123 in JWST identifies the first concrete evidence of photochemistry (chemical reactions initiated by energetic stellar light) and sulfur dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere by Easy_Money_
From what I remember, and it's been a few years since I read up on it, there are a few planets within the habitable zone of the star, but because the star is a red dwarf, that means that the planets are pretty close to the star relative to its mass and they are probably tidally locked. Tidally locked planets theoretically could have a "eyeball" like pattern where the back side is frozen solid, the "pupil" is scorching hot, with an "iris" zone that is semi-temperate because it is cooled from the frozen region that never sees the light from the sun and warmed by the side that is constantly in the sun.
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