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Another cool places for habitable planets to be: - Active galaxy with a jet stretching perpendicularly to the galaxy plane for distances much bigger than the g
by nuccy 4y ago
Another cool places for habitable planets to be:
- Active galaxy with a jet stretching perpendicularly to the galaxy plane for distances much bigger than the galaxy's size, shinning in all the wavelengths.
- Planet around a double star one of which is a black hole or a neutron star.
- mike_hock 4y ago> shinning in all the wavelengths Just a precaution so we don't get sued.
- basilgohar 4y agoIt took me a couple of passes to catch this subtle Simpsons reference. :-)
- chongli 4y agoPlanet around a double star one of which is a black hole or a neutron star I'm not sure that would be very habitable. Unless they're far apart, the neutron star/black hole would be accreting matter from its companion and the accretion disk would be emitting large amounts of x-rays. In some cases, they can occasionally increase in luminosity by a factor of 10, emitting powerful bursts of x-rays.
- denton-scratch 4y agoI believe anywhere near a neutron star is going to be extremely inhospitable. A very compact massive object, spinning really fast, and with a strong magnetic field, will produce intense synchrotron radiation, right? Wikipedia says the magnetic field of a neutron star is between 10^8 and 10^15 times the Earth's. The amount of energy in a magnetic field that strong is mind-boggling. Anything anywhere near a neutron star will be bathed in intense broadband radiation, and whipped about by a rapidly-rotating magnetic field. Not a nice place to set up camp.