Loudwater School Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 So, my family has recently been talking about what the sky would look like from a planet in a binary solar system, and we have all these questions and I'm not sure where to find the answers. So here I am, because you folks seem to have answers, or ideas about where to find answers, for everything. Here are some of the questions we have. How do the stars in a cluster interact with each other? Do they move in each other's skies or are they fixed like the faraway ones? Would you see them in the daytime? How does a planet orbit a binary star system, and what kinds of seasons does that produce? For that matter, what kind of days and nights? Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in NY Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Well, I only poked around there for a couple of seconds, and didn't find exactly what you were looking for, but http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/interactives http://exep.jpl.nasa.gov/ have a lot of interactive stuff about exoplanets, which may include a way to simulate binary systems. I believe they have located about 7-800 exoplanets as of right now...... HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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