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If you were standing on a habitable moon of a gas giant, what would the planet look like during the day vs the night? [closed]
If you were standing on the proplanetary side of a habitable moon of a gas giant, and the moon had a thick enough atmosphere to make the sky blue, how would the gas giant look during the day? Would it ...
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Are there areas within Jupiter's magnetosphere without powerful radiation?
I know Jupiter has powerful radiation belts, but I'm wondering if there are places within the magnetosphere that are relatively calm. I'm asking about Jupiter (a gas giant we know) because I'm curious ...
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Moons within a Gas Giant
Assuming a gas giant is primarily gaseous past our visibility, is it possible that a moon traveling at a sufficient velocity would be able to exist within the atmosphere, or would terminal velocity ...
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How to calculate the frequency of a gas giant eclipsing the sun from a moon?
Say you have a moon around a gas giant which goes around a star. If the moon has an inclination of around 0° relative to the gas giant's orbit, the gas giant will eclipse the star every orbit of the ...
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Would it be possible for life found on moon of rogue planet
I have heard that there are at least three Basic requirement for life exist in the universe, they are:
Source of Energy
Complex chemistry (including solvent/medium for chemical reaction)
Protection ...
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horseshoe orbits
I'm designing a moon system for a fictional setting, and recently came across the idea of horseshoe orbits.
The gist of my question is how many objects can share a horseshoe orbital at a time?
I ...
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Which moon has a scar as if it was torn in half and put back together?
When I was a kid I had several beautiful encyclopedias. In one of them there was a description of moon orbiting on of the gas giants that had huge ripples all along its surface.
It said in the text ...
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Could binary gas giants have ring and moon systems?
Would any moons/rings around either of the gas giants stay intact or get ripped apart by the tidal forces between the two giants? If any moons/rings are able to form around either of the giants, is ...
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Could a moon of a mini-neptune around a red dwarf harbour life?
I am planning a game where on could control evolution on an alien world.
I was thinking red dwarf as per here Habitable Planet around Red Dwarf
To my understanding three questions arise:
Tidal lock
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Can a gas moon exist? [duplicate]
Could a gaseous moon exist in the same way as a giant gas planet? All the moons in the solar system are rocky, or icy. Why shouldn't gas planets have gas moons?
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Why are the natural satellites (moons) of all planets solid?
Why are the natural satelites (moons) of all planets - including the moons of the gas giants - solid or rocky, and not gaseous?
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