"There's nothing wrong with having two stars as long as you're not gravitationally disturbed by it. You have double sunsets, but often the other sun is filling in the shadow that would be made by one of the suns." "So yeah, that'd be the first one we'd visit if we were to go anywhere," he says about a trip to Alpha Centauri. 'I think they're making his crap up now,' Gabriella replies. "'Cause I don't know anything about them,'" Neil Gaiman responds.'And why would what? They'll get there and then 12, 1000 generations later, they'll get there.'
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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