What recently discovered exoplanet LHS 1140b may look like. Found by Webb telescope, scientists say one side is all ice, while the other side that is tidally locked to its star has a region of liquid ocean and cloud, appearing like an eye.
by G_Marius_the_jabroni
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The Webb telescope is doing incredible work can’t wait to see what else it uncovers
Rad
The Iris mocks us
I wonder if at some point if the ice were to keep melting if the freed moving liquid ocean would change its tidal relationship with its star and alter its orbit.
I want a movie set on that planet!!
Basically, a space Argentina.
We should nuke it
Is this how flat earthers see the world?
if it’s tidally locked, the sun would never stop shining at the equatorial ocean, so there would constantly be storms raging there. maybe just one giant hurricane.
horrifying.
“Somehow, Sauron returned”
Talk about an ice wall
Talk about an ice wall!!!!!
r/worldbuilding needs to get on this right away.
The everstorm comes
that’s insane!
Lol that planet actually has an ice wall!
New fish on the menu. Noice!
It is as foretold in the prophecy!
1 cloud. Just 1. A single, lonely cloud.