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Maybe a tangentially related question, what happens if you form a system very much like our solar system, but the central body never actually ignites and it jus
by jcims 6y ago
Maybe a tangentially related question, what happens if you form a system very much like our solar system, but the central body never actually ignites and it just remains a dark ball of hydrogen. Would the system still be called a solar system?
- caf 6y agoThat'd be more of a rogue planet with moons.
- jcims 6y agoThat's what i was thinking but if it's the size of our solar system and the 'moons' had moons it gets weird. (But i guess our moon could have moons so it's moons all the way down)
- caf 6y agoSometimes called moonmoons. A system the size of our solar system centred on a jupiter-sized object wouldn't be very stable - it'd be quickly disrupted by an encounter with a star.