Seven-Planet System Detected
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Seven-Planet System Detected
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#2"The star is 2500 light years away from Earth."
Found that on google. Doesn't seem so far away :P
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#3Hang on, I thought 'Solar system' means the system orbiting the star 'Sol' i.e. our sun? Isn't the general term 'planetary system'?
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#4the entire system lies within one Earth orbit
Perhaps little chance of life as we know it.
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#5the entire system lies within one Earth orbit Perhaps little chance of life as we know it.
Moons orbiting the outermost gas giant could support earth like life.
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#6Hang on, I thought 'Solar system' means the system orbiting the star 'Sol' i.e. our sun? Isn't the general term 'planetary system'?
Yes, 'Solar' refers to our sun, Sol. So there is only one 'Solar' system which is our own.
I think 'star system' is acceptable as well.
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#7"The star is 2500 light years away from Earth." Found that on google. Doesn't seem so far away :P
Yeah, unreachable without FTL travel.
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#8"The star is 2500 light years away from Earth." Found that on google. Doesn't seem so far away :P
Yeah, unreachable without FTL travel.
It would take about 15.6 years [0] to reach the star on a ship capable of a constant 1G acceleration.
Here is the explanation and equations: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Relativity/SR/rocket.h...
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#9"The star is 2500 light years away from Earth." Found that on google. Doesn't seem so far away :P
just three years at warp 9 =)
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#10Kepler 62 seems interesting