Life on Giant Moons (Narration Only)
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Importance of Stable Orbits
We consider something in potentially stable orbit as moon or sub-moon if its orbital distance from the planet is no more than a ninth of the orbital distance. That does mean you could potentially have life arise on a sub-moon of a high-sea and planet orbiting a brown dwarf that was binary to a red dwarf which in turn orbit at an F or A type star, though for life to ever reason it would have had enough time pass for that giant to either have interned to a neutron star or a black hole. And yes, planetary systems can survive supernovae, they just tend to have their surfaces blown off and need to recur but that sort of event could cause a lot
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