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===Extrasolar=== * [[Gliese 581c]],<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070425/1a_bottomstrip25_dom.art.htm | work=USA Today | title=Out of our world: Earthlike planet | first=Dan | last=Vergano | date=2007-04-25 | access-date=2010-05-25 | archive-date=2011-05-23 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110523021921/http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20070425/1a_bottomstrip25_dom.art.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> [[Gliese 581g]],<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/astronomers-find-most-earth-like.html|title=Astronomers Find Most Earth-like Planet to Date|journal=Science, USA|date=September 29, 2010|access-date=September 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002020745/http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/astronomers-find-most-earth-like.html|archive-date=October 2, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8033124/Gliese-581g-the-most-Earth-like-planet-yet-discovered.html|title=Gliese 581g the most Earth like planet yet discovered|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]], UK|date=September 30, 2010|access-date=September 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101002104629/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8033124/Gliese-581g-the-most-Earth-like-planet-yet-discovered.html|archive-date=October 2, 2010}}</ref> [[Gliese 581b]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Gliese 581 |url=http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/planet/Gliese%20581%20b/ |website=Open Exoplanet Catalogue |access-date=16 May 2019 |archive-date=7 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407173703/http://www.openexoplanetcatalogue.com/planet/Gliese%20581%20b/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Gliese 581e]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Gliese 581 |url=https://library.eb.com.au/levels/adults/article/Gliese-581/475108 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=16 May 2019 |archive-date=6 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806164036/https://library.eb.com.au/?target=%2Flevels%2Fadults%2Farticle%2FGliese-581%2F475108 |url-status=live }}</ref> may be tidally locked to their parent star [[Gliese 581]]. [[Gliese 581d]] is almost certainly captured either into the 2:1 or the 3:2 spin–orbit resonance with the same star.<ref>{{Cite journal | bibcode=2012ApJ...761...83M | last1=Makarov | first1=V. V. | last2=Berghea | first2=C. | last3=Efroimsky | first3=M. | name-list-style=amp | title=Dynamical Evolution and Spin–Orbit Resonances of Potentially Habitable Exoplanets: The Case of GJ 581d. | journal=The Astrophysical Journal | id=83 | date=2012 | issue=2 | volume=761 | doi=10.1088/0004-637X/761/2/83 | pages=83 | arxiv=1208.0814 | s2cid=926755 }}</ref> * All planets in the [[TRAPPIST-1]] system are likely to be tidally locked.<ref>{{cite press release|title=NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star|url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around|publisher=NASA|date=22 February 2017|access-date=23 February 2017|archive-date=5 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170305055703/https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Gillon | first1=Michaël | last2=Triaud | first2=Amaury H. M. J. | last3=Demory | first3=Brice-Olivier | last4=Jehin | first4=Emmanuël | last5=Agol | first5=Eric | last6=Deck | first6=Katherine M. | last7=Lederer | first7=Susan M. | last8=de Wit | first8=Julien | last9=Burdanov | first9=Artem | date=2017-02-23 | title=Seven temperate terrestrial planets around the nearby ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 | journal=Nature | language=en | volume=542 | issue=7642 | pages=456–460 | doi=10.1038/nature21360 | issn=0028-0836 | pmc=5330437 | pmid=28230125 | arxiv=1703.01424 | bibcode=2017Natur.542..456G }}</ref>
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