Space In General
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I'm going to take a wild guess that no life, as we understand it, could ever exist in any system of that nature.
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That's the Three-Body Problem right?
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So I think it would be absolutely impossible for planets to actually form that way, because portions of the accretion disc would have to be swirling in different directions that wouldn't be feasibly caused by any phenomenon. The initial conditions to achieve something like this require that the planets are already captured in the system and formed fully. That would require some sort of impact with another body at just the right moment with just the right mass and just the right velocity. To be honest I don't think those scenarios can exist anywhere in nature.
N-body. The three body problem is a bit misleading as it implies two gravitational bodies (the third is a spacecraft assumed with zero gravity). The reference frame is chosen normally to make the two gravitational bodies stationary. You can't do that once you get a third gravitating body without going to weird rotating pulsating reference frames - which are absurd.
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I don't know where I have seen it but scientists discovered a binary black hole system that, if it was visible, created an orbit drawing that comes straight from a spirograph.
It's the one on the bottom right, I can't find the image itself but it should give you an idea.
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The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a mirror of 100 meters in diameter. A telescope of approximately this size would be able to spectroscopically analyse Earth-size planets around the forty nearest sun-like stars, allowing researchers look for signs of life such as free diatomic oxygen in their atmospheres.
Because of the complexity and cost of building a telescope of this unprecedented size, ESO instead has elected to focus on the 39-meter diameter European Extremely Large Telescope which began construction in the Chilean Atacama Desert in December 2014 and is scheduled to begin operation in 2024.
It's the one on the bottom right, I can't find the image itself but it should give you an idea.
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The Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL) was a conceptual design by the European Southern Observatory for an extremely large telescope, which was intended to have a mirror of 100 meters in diameter. A telescope of approximately this size would be able to spectroscopically analyse Earth-size planets around the forty nearest sun-like stars, allowing researchers look for signs of life such as free diatomic oxygen in their atmospheres.
Because of the complexity and cost of building a telescope of this unprecedented size, ESO instead has elected to focus on the 39-meter diameter European Extremely Large Telescope which began construction in the Chilean Atacama Desert in December 2014 and is scheduled to begin operation in 2024.
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or Platypus.
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That idea, while plausible, is not currently in the mainstream of speculation. Neither is a recent catastrophic event in the asteroid belt.
However, another idea invoking a recent collision involving a larger body than Pluto, location unspecified(?), is in the mainstream view. I posted it here:
A pic from that link:
Enceladus has a ridiculously hot pole, and we still can’t explain why. Image credit: NASA
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As far as the solar system goes, pluto is out back.
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"The new close-up images show fascinating detail within the Texas-sized plain (informally named Sputnik Planum) that lies within the western half of Pluto's heart-shaped region, known as Tombaugh Regio. There, a sheet of ice clearly appears to have flowed - and may still be flowing - in a manner similar to glaciers on Earth."
New Horizons discovers flowing ices
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But seriously, i looked around a bit and think that this could be actinoform clouds, looking beautiful from space, but on earth mostly associated with drizzle. An interesting read!
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Saturn, two of its moons, Mimas and Dione om, and Saturn's ring.
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Here is a close up picture of Mimas. So many craters!Saturn, two of its moons, Mimas and Dione om, and Saturn's ring.
And here is a close up picture of Dione.
