03 June 2009

A WHOLE DIFFERENT SUNSET

imagine for a moment that you lived on a gas giant plant, not unlike jupiter -- as whatever life form might survive there. imagine further that your home planet moved in a relatively tight orbit around a small, dim red dwarf star. the two objects are roughly the same size, though the sun is ten times as dense as the planet. here is what such a hypothesized pair might look like --





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