Sentences with phrase «perpetual night side»

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Hot Jupiter HD 209458b has one side that always faces its star and reaches 2000 °C, while the other is in perpetual night at 500 °C.

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The planets in the habitable zone and those closer to the star are expected to always have the same side facing the star, so that their day and year will be the same lengths, with one side in perpetual sunshine and the other always night.

Tidal locking of such a closely orbiting planet would resulting in perpetual day on one side and perpetual night on the other.

Again, tidal locking of such a closely orbiting planet would resulting in perpetual day on one side and perpetual night on the other.

«Depending on the nature of its atmosphere or the presence of oceans, the heat can be efficiently distributed from the warm side facing the star to the cool side in perpetual night,» Astudillo - Defru tells HowStuffWorks.

A side effect of this is that they are tidally locked, meaning that one face of the planet is always facing its star, bathed in perpetual sunlight, while the other experiences a permanent night.

Planets in the habitable zone of low - mass, cool stars are expected to be in synchronous rotation, where one side of the planet always faces the host star (the substellar point) and the other side experiences perpetual night (the anti-stellar point).

In the end, most all of the map areas just bleed into one colorless blob of perpetual night, and I stopped caring about the characters or side quests or anything and just wanted to «get it over with.»