May be the problem Florida and Texas have?
Ah, the X-File’s elusive shapeshifting planet!
Earth 🌎🌍?
In general, red dwarf stars generate significantly less heat and visible light than our own sun.
I am thinking the habitable zone of a red dwarf solar system must also be significantly smaller.
San Francisco 50 years ago, then San Francisco now. New York in Giuliani years, and then New York in Wilhelm years. Chicago ...
[...likely high radiation environment doesn’t bode well for any type of habitability on this world]
So they only found another uninhabitable planet?
Bullshito!
I dated a woman like that once.
Why would the “habital zone” not be essentially spherical shape?
(The definition of “habital zone” seems pretty squirrely to me, anyway.)
Most orbits start out as non-circular ellipses but all orbits end up that way because no celestial body is perfectly spherical. Tiny deviations from a spherical shape (or even irregularities in gravitational pull caused by nutation, or variability in composition) act irregularly on the path of anything orbiting that body, and over millennia take orbits out of circular. The only satellites with relatively circular orbits are artificial ones that receive frequent course adjustments.
A planet outside any habitable zone is (theoretically) uninhabitable but just because a planet is in a habitable zone doesn't mean it's habitable, only that it's (strictly speaking) not un-inhabitable.