I read that as Paris. On the plus side it makes more sense now. Should probably go to sleep...
I also read Paris, and thought "stars" referred to celebrities. Oops
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#12I read that as Paris. On the plus side it makes more sense now. Should probably go to sleep...
I thought this and made a quick assumption that we found a way to link decoded DNA down to the city level!
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#13I read that as Paris. On the plus side it makes more sense now. Should probably go to sleep...
I also read Paris, and thought "stars" referred to celebrities. Oops
That is literally the exact thing that I thought too. Its interesting that a sentence like this can be so easily misinterpreted by multiple people in the same way.
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#15Could Jupiter have been a failed pair?
Well what do you know, Jupiter doesn't actually orbit the sun! Not properly anyway
http://www.iflscience.com/space/forget-wha-you-heard-jupiter...
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#18Could Jupiter have been a failed pair?
Well what do you know, Jupiter doesn't actually orbit the sun! Not properly anyway http://www.iflscience.com/space/forget-wha-you-heard-jupiter...
This is silly semantics. Jupiter and the Sun both orbit the center of mass of the Jupiter-Sun system. The article is making the point that for Jupiter and the Sun this point happens to be just outside the surface of the Sun.
It's much simpler to say "Jupiter orbits the Sun" than "Jupiter and the Sun both orbit the center of mass of the Jupiter-Sun system". You can think of the former as a shorthand for the latter.
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#19For some background, a little under half of all stellar systems are binaries. About 40% are single stars, and about 10% are triple systems. The remainder (perhaps a few percent) are higher-order systems like quadruples and quintuples.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well what do you know, Jupiter doesn't actually orbit the sun! Not properly anyway http://www.iflscience.com/space/forget-wha-you-heard-jupiter...
This is silly semantics. Jupiter and the Sun both orbit the center of mass of the Jupiter-Sun system. The article is making the point that for Jupiter and the Sun this point happens to be just outside the surface of the Sun. It's much simpler to say "Jupiter orbits the Sun" than "Jupiter and the Sun both orbit the center of mass of the Jupiter-Sun system". You can think of the former as a shorthand for the latter.
But doesn't this show that the main players of the solar system are the sun and Jupiter?
Apologies for the source, and my clear lack of knowledge in astronomy.