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Thanks!

By planet, I meant an orbital body large enough to be more or less perfectly spherical. So basically like Janus and Epimetheus, but orbiting a star.

So I remembered that Jupiter shares his orbit with two asteroid groups (Jupiter trojans) at Lagrange points in its orbit. So I want to ask, is it at all possible for planets or planetoids to be formed at Lagrange points in a star system, or will gravitational interference always ensure that it...

As I understand it, the more complex the element, more energy is required to create it. And some elements may only be created in stars of certain size. Iron is the cutoff point because iron is the heaviest element that is created in stars of normal size, that is, through nuclear fusion. Any...

While I am currently primarily interested in fantasy (and science fiction), my interests overall run a gamut of media, history, paleontology, astronomy and astrophysics. My introduction to the last one was Kratka Povijest Svemira, a Croatian translation of excellent book by Gerhard Staguhn, Die...