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Could Jupiter be a failed Binary Star?
by bozhark 3y ago
Could Jupiter be a failed Binary Star?
- az09mugen 3y agoIt does not make really sense to talk about 'binary star'. It should be a 'binary stellar system' with 2 stars involved. With this meaning, if you intend to say Jupiter is a failed star and if it had been a star we will be living in a binary stellar system (Jupiter as a star + the Sun), then yes.
- euroderf 3y agoTwo sources of sunlight, often on opposite sides of the Earth, certainly would have changed the path of evolution, possibly even back as far as primordial slime.
- az09mugen 3y agoDefinitively ! I wonder how the 'circadian' cycle looks like on this kind of planet and how it impacts the life.
- layer8 3y agoI’d rather say it’s a successful planet.
- butlike 3y agoWhat if looking backwards in the solarsystem is looking at the same planet, just in the past? Mercury, venus, earth, mars, saturn, uranus, neptune... all the same planet. Neptune, gasses condense as they get compressed by gravity Uranus, a small core surrounded by compressing gas Saturn, we can see the accretion disk formed before it gets compressed to more mass (heard we just found hydrogen cyonide here as well!) Mars, a dense planet with no atmosphere. Water under the crust, though! Earth, hydrogen chloride + h2o = BAM! Life Venus, too close to the sun to sustain life Mercury, a hot planetary body which is smaller due to it's matter being absorbed by the Sun