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What would a gas giant, such as Uranus, look like if it were orbiting a sun like star at an Earthlike orbit?
This is a hypothetical. If a gas giant with the approximate mass and density of Uranus existed within the goldilocks range to support life around a star, what would be the conditions on the service. ...
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Could a super-Jupiter exoplanet in the habitable zone have an axial tilt?
I’m wondering if a massive planet (maybe 10 times the mass of Jupiter) in the habitable zone of a G type star could have an axial tilt similar to earth or if gravitational forces would erode the tilt ...
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What percentage of gas giant exoplanets are in the habitable zone?
Approximately what percent of exoplanet gas giants discovered so far are in the habitable zones of their stars? I hear that most of them are "Hot Jupiters", orbiting so close to their stars that the ...
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Questions about a fictional binary system, and habitability [closed]
Note: Questions are at the bottom. The rest had simply been written in a format to better organize my thoughts. The formulas used to construct this fictional solar system, had been borrowed from ...
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