Planetary articles
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Hubble Celebrates 34th Birthday With a Peek at a Planetary Nebula
Hubble has beamed home a stunning shot of the Little Dumbbell Nebula.
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The planetary orbit in Netflix's '3 Body Problem' is random and chaotic, but could it exist?
I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called "Placet is a Crazy Place" by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown.
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How realistic is the planetary orbit in Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’? A physics professor explains
Note: The following article contains spoilers about the Netflix series 3 Body Problem.I first encountered the three-body problem 60 years ago, in a short story called “Placet is a Crazy Place” by American science fiction writer Frederic Brown.In Brown’s story, Placet is a planet in a figure-of-eight orbit around two stars, one of which is composed of ordinary matter, the other of anti-matter. The closeness of the two stars cause time and space to become wonderfully distorted so that Placet can...