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What are some interesting astronomy facts or unique celestial bodies you know about?

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 01:53:26 2021 No.12870531 View Reply Original Report

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Starting the thread with Castor, a sextuple star system organized into three binary pairs (pic related)

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 01:55:15 No.12870540 Report

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>>12870531
That must be terrible. You would never get any sleep with all the sunlight.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 07:15:31 No.12871380 Report

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How is this system stable? Intuitively, a small disturbance would cause this delicate arrangement to collapse, why doesn't it?

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 07:18:46 No.12871390 Report

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>>12870540
Only seems to have stars I think

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 13:57:32 No.12872336 Report

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>>12871390
Each of the star pairs have very close orbits, with periods in days
I wonder if there could be stable planetary systems that orbit each pair's center of gravity.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 14:05:01 No.12872362 Report

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I wonder what would happen to the other stars if one went supernova. I suspect they're not massive enough. They seem to be pretty close to us as well. Hope they heem us.

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 15:12:06 No.12872548 Report

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One of the main problems when talking about the terraforming of Venus is the lack of water on that planet.
Guess what was the best solution we came up with? To fucking steal one of Saturn's ice moons through gravity assists and crash it straight into Venus lmfao
Pic related is the first paragraph talking about how we'd do that, from the paper about the terraforming of Venus

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