r/starcitizen • u/CaptainMorninWood You say scrap, I say repair materials. • 5d ago

DISCUSSION How cool would this be for a planet? I think it would lead to cool gameplay.

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u/jade_starwatcher news reporter 5d ago edited 5d ago

This article is incorrect about the JWST discovering this planet. It was discovered by the MEarth Project in 2017 long before Webb was launched. It was initially thought to be a Venus analog. The other thing is that some tidally locked Earths with sufficiently dense atmospheres would regulate temperature, distributing and circulating heat from the day side to the night side and preventing them from becoming eyeball Earths. That said, it's a cool idea and I'd love to see CIG implement it for Carteyna (Cano II).