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[QUOTE="Algr, post: 6843414, member: 122860"] This is actually the most reasonable situation for a habitable planet. Star Wars has planets that are all forest or all tropical, and that is actually not possible. A planet with a breathable atmosphere will have roughly an 60°c (140°f) spread of average temperatures between the equator and poles. It's not the gas that makes the radiation, but the magnetic field from the metallic core. (Including metallic hydrogen?) So making the planet rocky or gas would not make a difference here. Don't forget about tidal locking. Moons tend to have very long days because of this, and need to be very far or very close to their planets to have a 24 hr day. [/QUOTE]
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