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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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Why don't we detect planets around OB stars and no terrestrial planets around A or early F stars?
Looking at an exoplanet database, I noticed that there are very few planets detected around main-sequence OBA stars, and most of them are gas giants/brown dwarfs. Why can't we detect low-mass planets ...
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Could a star become a planet?
Could a star become a planet? I am asking this because the gas giants are ¨Failed Stars¨ and they are classified as planets in our solar system.
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Can a dying, swelling, star be rejuvinated by enveloping orbiting gas giants?
Many hot jupiter type exoplanets have been found, orbiting near their parent stars.
At the end of a stars life, they swell up and sometimes envelop closely orbiting bodies.
Combine these effects and ...
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Fate of Jupiter when our sun dies
Five billion years from now, the sun will have grown into a red giant star, more than a hundred times larger than its current size.
While this metamorphosis into the giant star will change the solar ...
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Can hot Jupiters cause solar flares?
I'm very new at Astronomy, and my knowledge is sparse. I've tried to be conscientious about my Wikipedia research but there's going to be a lot of things I don't know. Thanks for your patience.
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Why is the core of a gas giant supported by electron degeneracy pressure instead of nuclear fusion?
After a Sun-sized protostar forms, its core will become denser over time due to radiation. The core eventually gets dense and hot enough for hydrogen fusion to take place. In the late phases of the ...
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Do the magnetic fields of stars and/or other planets reverse?
I've heard of the magnetic field of the earth reversing poles over the course of thousands of years but do stars and other planets (specifically gas giants) also experience this? If so how does it ...
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Is it possible for a star to orbit a planet?
Is it possible for a red dwarf to orbit a gas giant?
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Has this happened and it is just assumed that the gas giant is orbiting the star?
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