As the James Webb telescope becomes operational, we’ll soon start receiving more data than ever before on the exoplanets nearest to us. The only problem is…. what ARE the exoplanets nearest to us? Today we’re taking a look at our closest neighbors to see what our chances of finding alien life are close to home.
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Sources / Further Reading
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nearest-exoplanet-to-our-solar-system
https://www.space.com/17470-neptune-moon-triton-subsurface-ocean.html
https://esahubble.org/videos/archive/category/jwst/
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/ways-to-find-a-planet/#/1
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3894/JAMES.2010.2.13
No Snowball on Habitable Tidally Locked Planets with a Dynamic Ocean
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/203650/how-do-you-map-the-climates-and-biomes-on-a-tidally-locked-planet-with-no-coriol
https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC19/demos/demo30.html
https://climate-dynamics.org/videos/tidally-locked-earth/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1315215111
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.1025.pdf
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