There are exoplanets out there that seem very Earth-like, but if you look out and see liquid metal instead of liquid water, you might be in the Venus zone.
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Sources:
https://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/venus-zone-narrows-search-for-habitable-planets/
https://www.space.com/27106-exoplanet-venus-zone-habitable-planet.html
https://news.psu.edu/story/325896/2014/09/11/research/researchers-search-venus-planets
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.05889.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.03146.pdf
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2017/01/26/planets-around-wolf-1061-key-to-understanding-venus/#1231f9f311d7
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/historic-timeline/#first-earth-sized-planet-in-the-habitable-zone
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Images:
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA00104.html
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/nasa-climate-modeling-suggests-venus-may-have-been-habitable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venus-real_color.jpg
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/kepler/multimedia/images/kepler-22b-diagram.html
http://sites.psu.edu/ceh5286/images/
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA13001.html
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA00234.html
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA00111.html
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9516g/
https://images.nasa.gov/details-PIA00271.html
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