Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Atmospheres


Five exoplanets have recently been discovered orbiting the star KOI-500, a star smaller and younger than our Sun.
The five exoplanets orbit this star so closely that their years range from only one to nine and a half days long!
Imagine!

And perhaps the coolest part of this system?

The planets are so close together that their mutual gravity slightly pushes and pulls on their orbits, yet their orbits are unusually stable are more synchronized than any other system that's been discovered yet, including our own.

Think about that.

Mutual gravity
Atmospheres
Synchronized
Close
Harmonious

~  Can you and I share this as well?  ~

(( can't we all? ))