Hornblower wrote:Unless you mean habitable with a space suit, it wouldn't be possible. Even if it was identical to Earth, you would have to adapt to living at 2* Kelvin. If you do mean habitable with the spacesuit, that's fairly easy. Fly to any rogue planet!
Watsisname wrote:Space Engine's tidal heating formula may not be perfectly realistic (it's a simple model for the dissipation of energy in tidal evolution, which itself is pretty accurate, but computing surface temperature based on the tidal heating depends on properties of the world and its atmosphere which are very difficult to model.)
In reality, with an appropriate greenhouse atmosphere, tidal heating could very well yield habitable surface conditions on a rogue planet or moon. If you do some searching, you can find some journal articles about it.
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/523103/pdf
Watsisname wrote:It's the only one I've found so far -- I'd never really thought to look for them before and this was my first quick and deliberate search.![]()
In the search settings, try putting the main star as "planemo", object as "planet and moon", set the planet to "gas giant" and moon to "terra" with perhaps 1000LY search radius. It should be possible to find a few results.
Added: Here's another nice one. Raised the exposure and ambient light a little.
Starlight Glimmer wrote:Source of the post How did you turn up the ambient? I found quite a few of them.
Watsisname wrote:Source of the post In the search settings, try putting the main star as "planemo", object as "planet and moon", set the planet to "gas giant" and moon to "terra" with perhaps 1000LY search radius. It should be possible to find a few results.
Xoran wrote:Could life evolve on a planemo? Also, why do planets in interstellar space have three names (orphan planet, rouge planet, planemo) that describe the same thing?Watsisname wrote:Source of the post In the search settings, try putting the main star as "planemo", object as "planet and moon", set the planet to "gas giant" and moon to "terra" with perhaps 1000LY search radius. It should be possible to find a few results.
You should be able to find some with a 50 ly search radius.
ProximaCentauriB wrote:Source of the post Even if one could exist on a planemo, I wouldn't call it living. Imagine perpetual night time, no beautiful sunlight, ever. I think it would drive many insane to live on a place like that.