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How small stars help with planet formation
As I understood, low mass stars in their core go through fusion, but only the fusion of hydrogen happens. When it depletes hydrogen, fusion stops as temperature is still not high enough to support ...
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What is the maximum radius of a pure iron-56 planet?
Suppose we are building a pure iron-56 planet atom by atom, how large can it get in terms of radius before it collapses into a black hole?
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Would dropping a white dwarf or a "still-hot" stellar core into a large planet or brown dwarf create a star?
In the Wikipedia article about stellar engineering, I found this quote:
In The Saga of the Seven Suns, by Kevin J. Anderson, humans are able to convert gas giant planets into stars through the use of ...
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Why would tidal forces on planets become more intense when a star becomes a white dwarf?
I was puzzled by this press release by the Royal Astronomical Society: "Small, hardy planets most likely to survive death of their stars" - phys.org, May 14, 2019
Astrophysicists from the Warwick ...
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White dwarf's impact on orbiting bodies
Recently the Kepler telescope in its study of white dwarfs detected the first planetary object transiting a white dwarf in the data from the K2 mission. It was consistent with earlier theories' ...
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