Questions tagged [planets]
For questions about any large astronomical bodies classified as planets, and their effects on their systems.
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What would winds and storms be like in a no tilt mostly water planet
I'm making a mostly water planet with just a few islands and no axil tilt. Basically I'm wondering if my guesses are right, would my equator have lots of storms and hot rain due to the large amount of ...
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Life on a planet in a binary star system that is orbiting a black hole, how would it work? [closed]
I’m working on a fantasy novel and trying to keep the underlying science internally consistent so obviously i have some questions since im not a science person.
How possible is it for a planet in an ...
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How could a low-gravity world keep its atmosphere?
I am currently creating an exoplanet for my hard sci-fi novel, and I have been encountering a bit of an issue.
The main pretty much non-negotiable aspects of this planet are:
It has a low gravity (0....
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Tidally locked, low-gravity world orbiting 61 Cygni A: plausibility and life probability
I'm building a planet for a hard sci-fi novel set in the 61 Cygni system and want to stress-test the physics before I commit to the worldbuilding. I've done my own calculations (shown below), but I'd ...
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If the day/night cycle of a planet is 13.5 minutes,how long would a month be? [closed]
Length of daytime: 13.5minutes
Length of nighttime:13.5minutes
Months:13
Type of planet:desert planet full,no water at all and large mountains
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How would living under a red dwarf on a tidally locked planet affect your skin and eyes?
I am setting a story on a tidally locked planet under a red star (original, I know).
So, this is the scenario: imagine a human being born on this planet in a mostly safe habitable zone mostly safe ...
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What would the average temperature for a earth like planet with only islands and no continents (water world) be? how would it affect the atmosphere
I was wondering if having a water world would make a planet more hot or cold? Also would it change the atmosphere and make that warmer or cooler?
The planet is smaller then earth (not by to much), has ...
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If a planet had no tilt and a ring at the same tilt of the planet, what would the temperature be at the equator
I want to make a planet with no tilt and also a ring, I know that no tilt would make the equator always warm, but would having a ring make a shadow at the equator that would make it cooler? Or would ...
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What is the insolation of my planet
In order to determine other climate related factors about my planet I need to know the insolation. But I don't know how to calculate it. Given the known variables what is the insolation of my planet? ...
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Need advice on a “migrating ocean” world
What conditions on a planet (natural or artificial, such as fictional terraformers) would allow for migrating oceans (or massive floods) through a network of canyons around a continent, while ...
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how high does a planets atmospheric pressure need to be to break human bones?
How high would a planet's atmospheric pressure have to be to break the average human's bones? I'm trying to create a planet that consists of extremophiles.
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What would a primary crust really look like?
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The story that I'm working on is set on a terrestrial planet that is very young, think only 10s of millions of years after its solar system accreted from cosmic gas clouds. It's therefore ...
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Could a desert planet contain a single ocean?
I am designing a solar system as a D&D setting. One of the planets is almost entirely desert, but it has one ocean. It is Venus sized, with a dry but Earth-like atmosphere. The hypothetical ocean ...
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Could a comet-like 'tail' of a close-orbiting Jupiter or brown dwarf 'feed' the ecosystem of a planet in the habitable zone of the system?
I am currently planning on writing a short series of mini-stories about 'extraordinary' or unusual stellar systems where life still manages to emerge. This gave me an idea for a system. I am however ...
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How could seasons work on a moon that has the livability of a planet?
I am writing a fantasy series that is set on a planet that is also a moon to an evil, bigger planet. The idea is every 700 years, the planet the story is set on, we can call it Planet A, revolves ...
