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Could there be a star where humans could survive for a short time?
This honestly sounds like it's basically impossible, but here we go anyway.
We've picked up a strange reading from a spot orbiting a star in a system elsewhere in the Milky Way galaxy. We've come into ...
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Can my spaceship figure out its position using Cepheid Variables?
In my story, reasonably far in the future, an intrepid group of explorers are on the first manned mission to the Andromeda galaxy, travelling close to the speed of light. They slumbered in suspended ...
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Can I see my secondary star?
I have a binary star system and have come up with some stats for it.
My primary star is an F-type, with a mass of 1.3 sols and a luminosity of 2.197 sols. My secondary star is a K-type, with a mass ...
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Do stars in a binary star system fall along the ecliptic?
I am wondering about Tatooine, and was reading about binary systems here, which provided a lot of good basic food for thought. My specific question is not addressed at that link, and so I pose it here....
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Would alien litterbugs accidentally create a star?
Location: an interstellar gas cloud
Situation: an alien family stops for about half an Earth hour in the middle of the cloud to have a snack along their trip (by stops I mean they get null relative ...
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Can twin stars be born?
Stars are born through the fusion of light atoms and the star's nucleus. So let's say that as a star is being born, the nucleus split and creates two stars. Could this even happen? If so, would the ...
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Could faster-than-light supernova remnants form a star system?
Most current planets, and any inhabitants living on them, are ultimately the product of long-dead supernovas that exploded and sent matter across the universe, where it eventually got caught with ...
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Do different star systems experience time differently?
Somewhat in relation to this question - What could restrain post-singularity societies from spreading across the Galaxy?
I'm assuming not all star systems move at the same velocity in relation to the ...
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