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What planet almost became a second sun?
Jupiter
Jupiter is so Big that our Solar System almost had two Suns. About half of all the star systems in the galaxy are made of pairs or triplets of stars. Our solar system features just one star, the Sun, and a host of (relatively) small planets.
Is it possible for a planet to have 2 suns?
Can a planet really have two suns? While many things about Star Wars are purely fictional, it turns out that planets orbiting two or more stars is not one of them. In 2011, NASA embarked on the Kepler mission, exploring the Milky Way galaxy to find other habitable planets.
What was the second planet ever made?
Venus
Prehistorically discovered
| Prehistory | |
|---|---|
| Name | Other designation |
| Mercury | 1st Planet |
| Venus | 2nd Planet |
| Mars | 4th Planet |
What if we had 2 suns?
No sunscreen would prevent you from getting toasted by two suns. The Earth’s orbit could be stable if the planet rotated around the two stars. The stars would have to be close together, and the Earth’s orbit would be further away. This would keep the planet warm enough to sustain life.
Does Mars have 2 suns?
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury….Mars.
| Designations | |
|---|---|
| Perihelion | 206700000 km (128400000 mi; 1.382 AU) |
| Semi-major axis | 227939200 km (141634900 mi; 1.523679 AU) |
| Eccentricity | 0.0934 |
Is Earth or Mars older?
“Mars is believed to be geologically older than Earth, yet [both] formed out of the same material very close to each other,” Matthew Clement, the paper’s lead author and a graduate researcher in planetary science at the University of Oklahoma, told me.
What if Earth had ring?
Earth’s hypothetical rings would differ in one key way from Saturn’s; they wouldn’t have ice. Earth lies much closer to the sun than Saturn does, so radiation from our star would cause any ice in Earth’s rings to sublime away. Still, even if Earth’s rings were made of rock, that might not mean they would look dark.
Is there another planet other than the Sun?
If some powerful and mysterious flying spaghetti being magically created another planet and threw it into orbit, it would briefly be hidden from our view because of the Sun. But we don’t exist in a Solar System with just the Sun and the Earth. There are those other planets orbiting the Sun as well.
What happens if the Earth and the Sun miss each other?
If we were lucky, the planets would miss each other, and be kicked into new, safer, more stable orbits around the Sun. And if we were unlucky, they’d collide with each other, forming a new super-sized Earth, killing everything on both planets, obviously.
Unfortunately, the forces of gravity conspire to make this hidden planet idea completely impossible. Most importantly, when someone tells you there’s a hidden planet on the other side of the Sun, just remember these words: No. Nooooo.