Dust could help make alien worlds habitable

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Scientists have highlighted the role of dust in cooling or warming an otherwise uninhabitable extrasolar world.

https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337503/dust-could-help-make-alien-worlds-habitable

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Another indiction that planets in a wider range of orbits than that usually allotted to habitable planets may contain life. We'd already learned that a case can be made for life on tidally-locked planets of red dwarf stars, if they have oceans and/or thick atmospheres. Now it seem that dust can accomplish the same temperature-moderating influence.

Clouds of water vapor could probably do the same thing. On Earth, clouds can certainly make a day a much cooler one. They can also keep away freezing temperatures, where they would otherwise occur, in the absence of sunlight.