Original upload date: Feb 25, 2020

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"Eyeball Planets," while still theoretical, are the name given to the types of potentially habitable, Earth-like planets that would orbit Red Dwarf stars. Since Red Dwarfs have roughly a tenth the mass of the Sun and a hundredth the brightness, their habitable zones (the distance at which it's just the right temperature for a terrestrial planet to have liquid water on its surface) are VERY close in to the star itself, with orbits of only a few days to a couple weeks. This means, like our moon is to Earth, and all the moons of the Gas Giant planets, the gravitational tug of the parent body has forced the smaller world to only show one face to the parent at all times as though attached to some invisible tether. This means, in theory, most if not all such planets orbiting small stars would have perpetual day on one side and endless night on the other, causing the night side to freeze over into one giant ice-cap, and the center of the day side to be stiflingly hot and shrouded in storm clouds powered by the never-setting sunlight. As such, the most likely places on such worlds to find "comfortable" conditions would be around the twilight-line of the night-and-day-sides where the temperatures are evened out and air and water currents deliver the most nutrient-rich material for life to thrive on.