In the same way, if you think of earth as a moon to the sun, we have a moon. It's probably the three body problem. orbits tend to be highly unstable. You can invert that and say you can have double star systems such as what was portrayed in the first of the Star Wars movies,. which is of course Star Wars episode four. All right. That's that's the only accurate science in the entire Star Wars series. The f*** is a graviton.
What if the solar system had two suns? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice give a sneak peek into our patron-only Q&As with questions about the three body problem, galaxy formation, the alpha centauri system, and more.
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