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What if we lived on a planet with No Sun.

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By Alora NailsPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
What if we lived on a planet with No Sun.
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It has been suggested that a planet may exist that nobody wants to take home. These planets, which have been ejected from their own star system, are now floating aimlessly through space like cosmic loners. Estimates suggest that there may be many of these ethereal worlds in our galaxy. Some of these worlds are massive gas giants, many times larger than Jupiter.

For example, one of the most famous rogue planets we know of is located about 80 light years away from Earth and was discovered in 2013. This rogue planet is estimated to be around six times the mass of Jupiter and is believed to be around 12 million years old. Even though it doesn't have a star, this planet can still generate heat and light from its internal processes. Some may even have magnetic fields and auroras just like Earth.

Rogue planets could potentially be habitable if they have the right conditions. What would life on such a planet look like and could we potentially live in such a world? Well, living on a rogue planet can be a lonely existence. They have no warm sun to bask in, no cozy atmosphere to cuddle up in, and no Cosmic neighbors to have barbecue with. That's why we'd have to get creative.

let's start with the most obviousproblem we'd have a hard time without

light and heat so how do we fix this

well we'd probably have to invest in

some really fancy space heaters and wear

fashionable super warm spacesuits or we

could invent a whole new way to generate

electricity without relying on solar

power for example how about using

geothermal energy now that's hot stuff

each planet has an internal source of

heat without it they would all be

nothing more than cold lifeless rocks

floating through space this internal heat can be harnessed and used to power everything from homes to factories to spaceships it's like having a hot tub big enough to power an entire city and that City most likely will be located underground closer to the heat source and as for light Well we'd probably have to build some really bright flashlights or maybe even learn to genetically engineer some bioluminescent organisms to light up our homes just imagine space space is overgrown with neon mushrooms and plants by the way speaking of plants plant life could be pretty hard to come by without a star so what would we eat well we could use the same geothermal vents that we talked about or some chemicalreactions to sustain ourselves and hey maybe we develop a taste for sulfur-rich foods or would start fermenting our own drinks from the bubbling volcanic mudyum but besides food we'd have a more important problem living on a rogue Planet would be breathtaking literally we'd have no air.

you see not all rogue planets have good

stable atmospheres it all depends on

their size composition and other things

but even if our new home does have an

atmosphere it may be incredibly thin and

unstable

we'd have no pretty blue skies or

dramatic sunsets to admire instead we'd

be staring out into the infinite void of

space where the stars would be brighter

than ever before and forget about

weather patterns without an atmosphere

to create them we'd have no rain no snow

and no thunderstorms and that's just

some minor problems what's worse the

temperature on the planet would be

wildly fluctuating swinging from

unbearable heat to unbearable coal it

would be like living in an oven that's always being turned on and off and finally we'd be exposed to all kinds of space debris and Cosmic radiation so if you don't want to get crispy you might want to invest in some serious SPF so how do we fix it Well we'd have to find a way to generate our own oxygen and probably create something like a space age biosphere for example we could grow some plants that could produce oxygen or it would learn to filter the air like a high-tech air purifier finally we have the last most important problem finding water and here's where the underwater oceans come to our Aid now we're really diving deep into the possibilities

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