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For questions related to planets, moons, stars and other celestial objects, and their motion on the sky.
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Is a "sun belt" realistic?
In a few science-fiction books I've read, the world that the story takes place on doesn't have a sun, but does have a "sun belt," where (instead of a regular sun) the world is lit by a stretch of sky …
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Can a planet realistically have multiple suns?
Several science fiction books I have read (including, IINM, Nightfall by Asimov) have featured planets with several suns. Some worlds where this happened wrought interesting effects on the inhabitants …
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What would a pair of Death Stars do to Earth?
Y'all should know by now that I want to build a Death Star ;-)
Let's assume that we did that already -- and against the odds, we've built two of them, and they're currently in orbit around a planet; …
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Can a planet realistically have multiple suns?
This answer was started by Pink's comment on the question.
Kepler/NASA have discovered what they call "circumbinary" planets -- planets that orbit multiple suns (or "stars" or whatever you want t …
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Building the Death Star with today's tech
I found an interesting Wikipedia article, quoted in an answer here.
I'm looking into writing a story where someone has built a Death Star. The purpose of this craft is important to the story (and the …
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