Life on an Eyeball Planet? It's Possible

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Tidally locked planets could be more common than Earth-like planets! And these "eyeball planets" might even be a promising place to look for unique lifeforms! Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at https://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Greg, Alex Schuerch, Alex Hackman, Andrew Finley Brenan, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://phys.org/news/2015-11-tidal.html https://phys.org/news/2017-08-tidally-exoplanets-common-previously-thought.html http://www.astro.sunysb.edu/fwalter/AST101/habzone.html https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.1025.pdf https://habitability.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/k_habconf2016/pdf/talks/Carone.pdf https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-color-of-plants-on-other-worlds/ https://phys.org/news/2012-05-group-circadian-clock-common-life.html https://scienceblogs.com/clock/2009/05/28/yes-archaea-also-have-circadia http://www.trappist.one/ https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02981 https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1448/trappist-1-is-older-than-our-solar-system/ https://www.space.com/6560-life-thrive-red-dwarf-star.html http://nautil.us/blog/-forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20248 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12850 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TRAPPIST-1f_Artist%27s_Impression.png https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12319 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12425 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11747 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11531 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gliese_581_-_2010.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21473/flaring-red-dwarf-star https://www.eso.org/public/videos/barnard-surface2b-v2-cc1/ https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0950a/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIA21429_-_Transit_Illustration_of_TRAPPIST-1_(cropped).jpg


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