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Habitable zone of this red giant
I have a Red Giant star of about ~4.15 solar masses (a number I generated from what I found to be the average size of red giants).
My question for right now would be "What would be the habitable ...
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What sort of solar system / atmospheric conditions, if any, would allow for a very cold planet that still receives plenty of light from its sun?
The setting I'm interested in would involve a cold planet (cold enough for most bodies of water to be frozen - I'm thinking of an average global temperature of -20C or below). The simplest way would ...
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Plausibility of "diamond"-like crystal and/or mineral substances forming on a planet orbiting a dwarf star
Alright, so the primary inspiration for this is 55 Cancri e, the speculated carbon "diamond world" and to a degree, Nkllon, a planet in Star Wars that is essentially what Cancri is, but "confirmed" to ...
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Mining Suns For Terraforming?
In my story, I have a fairly advanced human race who is at the point they want to start terraforming planets. Of course, all of the materials necessary have to come from somewhere, and the proposed ...
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Is it possible for one star to orbit another?
I'm dealing with a planet very similar to Earth, except that it has two suns. So, of course, it would be an extraordinary occasion when the inhabitants of the planet see only one sun in the sky. So ...
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In the shadow of a planet (science fiction)
I'm trying to come up with a scenario involving a mining base built on a planet that may only be approached from the shadowed side; the star (or other body) allows only that narrow lane of approach. ...
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