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NASA Scientist Finds World With Triple Sunsets.
(If you cant get lucky here you are doing something wrong). :-) A NASA-funded astronomer has discovered a world where the sun sets over the horizon, followed by a second sun and then a third. The new planet, called HD 188753 Ab, is the first known to reside in a classic triple-star system. http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/...n-071305a.html See next post.
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I still await the compelling Exhibit A. Last edited by Hazzard; 19-September-2005 at 11:07 AM. Reason: Link not working... |
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Link didn't work, here's a replacement: http://www.planetary.org/news/2005/e...stem_0714.html
And a picture: http://pr.caltech.edu/media/trinary_sunset_small-1.jpg ![]() with regards
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Thanks champion_munch.
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I still await the compelling Exhibit A. |
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No worries, I've enjoyed reading articles about this new-found system, and no doubt we'll find many more like it in the near future.
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Here is the most romanitc place in the universe.
A small artificial galaxy. A black hole at the center. Several ly out one one side is a dyson sphere. On the other side of the BH is a supersystem with a large ringed Gas Giant with several Earthlike moons with other habitable planets opposite its orbit. This artificial galaxy would be in a polar orbit above a large galaxy like the Milky way. Morning is coming. The Milky Way fades over head. The dyson sphere looks like a distant moon, with the bh being a dot at the center of its visible disk. You look up as your homeworld passes through the outermost ring of the huge gas giant you orbit. Comets race by as meteors begin to fall. The night/eclipse is over, as you see the blue halo of the gas giants atmosphere begin to glow. A huge Red Spot looks ominous as it passes behind some clouds of an approaching thunderstorm of your world. Your homeworld has its own small moon, and the other gas-giant moon/ homeworlds are already bathed the light of multiple suns. A huge space station moves over head. Just when you thought your sky could not get more crowded, here come the suns. If only... |
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Now add a small cluster of stars around the black hole--racing around it. Two or three nearby stars of the artificial galaxy have alderson disks and ringworlds.
All this around an artificial galaxy only a few parsecs wide that orbits the Milky Way. ...Heaven... |
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Call me crazy, but I don't think I could conceive of any form of romantic thought after slathering myself under SFP 1x10^5 sunblock from having to cope with a trio of stars overhead.
Three moons, then you might have something...
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Okay. Two small stars orbiting with very long life-spans at the center of the super system. The Earth-Like Moon has two moonlets, and theeir are several Earth-like moons of the gas giant that have three--with one breaking up to make for a nice novel.
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