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Previous Revision, by PhoenixBlue [2024-11-23 18:39:44] | → | Selected revision, by CMDR Marx [2024-11-24 16:05:54] |
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Taino Marley | → | Taino Marley |
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Oephaird Planetary Nebula | → | Eden in Oephaird |
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Oephaird CF-A e7699 | → | Oephaird CF-A e7699 |
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Stellar Features | → | Nebulae |
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Norma Arm | → | Norma Arm |
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A planetary nebula about 9,000 light-years from Sagittarius A* is home to a neutron star and an Earth-like world. | → | An extreme rarity: an Earth-like world that's inside a planetary nebula. |
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A planetary nebula about 9,000 light-years from Sagittarius A* is home to a bright red and green colors and, surprisingly, an Earth-like world about 2,500 light-seconds from the supernova remnant at the center of the system. The remnant is a 2.2-solar-mass neutron star with an age of about 280 million years. Three planets orbit the star, only one of which is what a visitor might expect: a scorched world with a surface temperature of about 1,600°C and a crushing atmosphere of silicate vapour. Orbiting this low-albedo world is a pristine Earth-like world with a thin atmosphere and 0.63-Earth-normal gravity. The average surface temperature on this anomalous world is a relatively balmy 5°C. What might lead to the development of an Earth-like climate only a few hundred million years after the violent death of its parent star is a mystery with few explanations. Hypotheses range from a panspermic spread of terraforming bacteria to the use of highly advanced, alien technology, but insufficient evidence exists to form a definitive conclusion. The final world in the system is a water world with a thick atmosphere and gravity about three times Earth-normal. There are no landable worlds in the nebula itself. However, the galactic neighborhood is densely populated, and the nebula dominates the view from nearby Oephaird CF-A e8085, where travelers can find roseum bioluminescent anemonae growing on the ringed Body 6. | → | Oephaird CF-A e7699 is a planetary nebula of an extremely rare kind: it houses an Earth-like world, about 2,500 light-seconds from the supernova remnant at the center of the system. Only 39 such places are known, including this one. (As of 3310. Nov.) The remnant is a 2.2-solar-mass neutron star with an age of about 280 million years. Three planets orbit the star, only one of which is what a visitor might expect: a scorched world with a surface temperature of about 1,600 °C and a crushingly dense atmosphere that's made of silicate vapour. Orbiting this low-albedo world is a pristine Earth-like world (1 a), of the low-pressure-and-low-gravity type. (0.45 atm and 0.63 g.) The average surface temperature on this moon is a relatively balmy 5°C. What might lead to the development of an Earth-like climate only a few hundred million years after the violent death of its parent star is a mystery with few explanations. Hypotheses range from being a captured moon that had simple life before it was originally ejected, to a panspermic spread of terraforming bacteria, but insufficient evidence exists to form a definitive conclusion. The final world in the system is a water world with a thick atmosphere and gravity that's about three times Earth-normal. There are no landable worlds in the nebula itself. However, the galactic neighborhood is densely populated, and the nebula dominates the view from nearby Oephaird CF-A e8085, where travelers can find roseum bioluminescent anemonae growing on the ringed body 6. |
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