Being a white dwarf star like our own sun, albeit a hotter F8 to our G3, could Polaris support a planetary system harboring life, such as a hideous elder race of gargantuan serpent gods who lurk in the misty depths of sunken, subaqueous cities...oops, said too much. Just answer the first part. Never mind about the Great Deep Ones!
2007-01-30 01:16:27 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Pray that the Old Ones stay where they are and lie forever dreaming. Hopefully, the stars will never be right.
I trust in the Elder Gods and Delta Green that we will live on on our small rock, propelling through an unimaginable universe protected by just a cloud of ignorance.
Iä, Iä, Shub Niggurath!
2007-01-30 01:25:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Polaris is actually a trinary system. There is Polaris A, an F7 Supergiant, Polaris B, an F3V main sequence star orbiting Polaris A at a distance of 2400 Astronomical Units (AU), and Polaris C, a tiny dwarf star orbiting Polaris A at a distance of around 18 AUs. An AU is the distance from the Sun to the Earth, around 93 million miles. I would have to say i think the best choice for life would be Polaris B...you could do Polaris A but with the companion dwarf orbiting i'm not sure how feasible it is for life in that area...
2007-01-30 09:51:18 · answer #2 · answered by Beach_Bum 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Polaris is a triple star. The main star is a giant variable star, so it is unlikely life could take root or survive on any planet orbiting it. However, one of the companion stars is a type F main sequence star that orbits quite far (60 times as far as Pluto is from our Sun) from the primary, and that star could possibly harbor life bearing planets.
2007-01-30 09:30:04 · answer #3 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe...but it would be less likely to find a life-bearing planet orbiting Polarus simply because it's not as old as the sun. General rule...the whiter (or bluer) and hotter they are, the younger they are. Life may not have had an opportunity to develop there yet....assuming the conditions are good for it.
The sun is actually a YELLOW dwarf.
2007-01-30 09:21:33 · answer #4 · answered by bradxschuman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
isn't Polaris a trinary system,(3 stars)
hard to have a planet spinning with all that stars in the neighborhood.
2007-01-30 09:29:47 · answer #5 · answered by Tharu 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋