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But the researchers found that a more accurate treatment revealed a much wider window of habitability than previously thought. This is because of the session of inner planet orbit protects it from being pulled into more elliptical paths, which in turn prevents runaway tidal heating, the researchers explained. So as a planet, our elliptical orbit moves further away from its, let's say in this case, its sun. As it moves further away, it has less gravitational influence on that planet. And so the planet's slowly compressing back again as it's moving closer in the planet, so the stars pulling more on it and causing it to go into this over a four-emthetical point of football. So it heats. So as it's contracting and expanding, it starts to heat up.