Recent content by thereaverofdarkness

I didn't put a lot of energy into studying this one because the high fraction of moons observed within our solar system strongly suggests that even if it is a bit of a fluke, it's no extreme fluke. It would have to be an extreme fluke in order to invalidate that we should expect to find multiple...

Trust me, as an astrobiology AND astrophysics enthusiast, that sounds to me the same as "To be clear, Stationery isn't related to cookies, that would be more Baking." I am well aware of the distinction.

The simplest and most direct answer is that most people have not heard of that paper. But I would like to dive into a slightly deeper analysis and say that the paper itself has a wrong result. Without even reading the contents, I can already debunk the abstract. It claims that re-working the...

I'm a big fan of physics and space exploration! I grew up studying all of this stuff and have been fascinated by it ever since. One of my favorite go-to topics to discuss is stellar evolution, because it ties space exploration in the current day with the frontier of particle physics. It feels...