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I came here exactly to say this ! Like the simulations of what will be seen from Earth when the Milky Way and Andromeda merge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An
by zilian 9y ago
I came here exactly to say this !
Like the simulations of what will be seen from Earth when the Milky Way and Andromeda merge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_collision#/media/File:Andromeda_Collides_Milky_Way.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%E2%80%93Milky_Way_co...) but with hundreds of planets !
Even a render of the "binary earth" would be cool.
- avmich 9y agoExcept for binarity of planets, I don't thing sky renderings would be particularly cool. If we have habitable zone of 50 millions kilometers wide - just a rough number - then planet ring to planet ring distance would be 6 million kilometers, 20 times Earth-Moon distance. With 52 planets along the single orbit and orbital radius 150 millions kilometers (~billion kilometers circumference) the distance between planets on the same ring would be 20 millions kilometers. So I don't think planets would appear too big on the sky. What I'm not sure about is how we'd deal with sea tides caused by binary planets. Even Moon causes significant tides; an Earth-sized planet would have to be much farther away than the Moon so it woudn't cause ever bigger tides...
- akkartik 9y agoLike from Space Engine: http://akkartik.name/post/worlds http://akkartik.name/post/worlds