Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer for Space.com for 10 years before joining full-time.
Like huge playground bullies, planets like Jupiter can be"agents of chaos" around other stars, a pair of new studies suggest., as organisms need stable conditions to take root and flourish. Just watch the 2011 film"Melancholia" to get the idea: a planet — once hit by, or veering too close to, a neighbor — will see its climate permanently destabilize.known as HD 141399.
While the planetary quartet is relatively far from their star, their presence still would be bad news for an Earth-like planet in theComputer simulations showed that Earth would have a tough time staying viable with so many big planets nearby."It's very unlikely," said Kane."There are only a select few areas where the giants' gravitational pull would not knock a rocky planet out of its orbit and send it flying right out of the zone.
Both of these planetary systems show what could have happened to us if we had too many Jupiters in our neighborhood, or a single Jupiter that came too close."Our work gives us more reasons to be very grateful for the particular planetary configuration we have in our solar system," Kane said.
Elizabeth Howell , Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. She was contributing writer forfor 10 years before joining full-time.
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