Solis Magna - orbits and the view of the sky
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- Solis Magna - the star around which the entire BIONICLE storyline takes place and the subject of our current mini-series on this channel.
Last month, we looked the main star of the binary, Solis A, determining is characteristics.
In this month's investigation, we take a look at Solis B more closely to try to determine its own features. Then we bring everything together to work out the orbital mechanics of the system and, most importantly, how this all looks from the ground on Spherus Magna.
Links to the previous videos in this series:
Part 1: • Solis Magna - a Binary...
Part 2: • What type of star is S...
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Great timing, Lego just revealed a Technic Orrery. Wanna see people make a Solis Magna system moc using that set.
i imagine blackout curtains are a very popular item for sale on spherus magna even when not a desert hellscape
If they evolved on this planet, maybe they’re naturally used to sleeping with light in the sky for half the year.
@@Jpteryxyeah maybe instead of seeing half of their year as too bright they’re adjusted to it just fine but see the other half as unnaturally dark
This is pretty cool.
Can’t wait for the episode on how much energy was involved with exploding and colliding celestial bodies.
As a scientist, these analytics make me happy, thank you. One note of measure: it would be safer to compare distances based on radiation stability. Choosing the orbital stability zone arbitrarily at a mere 2x the habitable zone is not very convincing.
With the binary system so close as presented in your video, the seasonal balance may be pulled into question. Though not entirely impossible, making the orbital stability range further out than demonstrated here would make the system yet more likely habitable. As the Solis Magna system seems to be teaming with life, this higher-likelihood situation would be more appropriate- even if not completely necessary.
And, true, taking into account the travel of the GSR would be estimated with the speed being much less than the speed of light, the time period still allows for a rather large distance. Even with our technologies, we are capable of crossing our own solar system on the scale of decades (and that's without the Great Beings mastery over gravity). This includes Pluto which is situated at ~50AU with an orbital period of ~250 years.
But, these are just a couple of notes. The overall research and production of this is really well done! Keep up the good work, scholar.
I love it, anyone, who likes sience or Bionicle is gonna like this! It's just so cool, that almost no one thought about this before and you just answert the question anyways. Its like those very specific questions someone answert on a random forum 10 years ago and you needed just that answer.
Thank you for writing a whole Physics 1 exam for me.
I absolutely love this channel, it’s taking something I’m already a nerd about and making it even more nerdy
Wonderfully done, this is one of those things that's just so weird to think about but also wonderfully bizarre and appropriate for Bionicle! The question remains though... what would it have been like for the inhabitants of the Island of Mata Nui? Would Aqua Magna just have roughly the same values for everything, or is it far enough away to experience a change in how the binary star system is seen?
Aqua, Bota, and Bara Magna are so close together (or rather, were prior to the reunification) that if it works for Spherus Magna (what they came from and what they returned to being), it works for all three of them.
@@kennyholmes5196 They’d probably also have more eclipses though lol
@@Yan_Alkovic Only during the time that Bara Magna was a thing. Bota Magna and Aqua Magna would get global eclipses every so often. And Bara Magna would probably get merely transits, based on the approximate visual size of Bota and Aqua in the art we've seen.
Once they get reunified and before they got shattered apart, the complete and utter lack of a moon means Spherus Magna gets no eclipses.
You sure know about a lot of things!!
If you're ever bored I have a slightly-related question because I could not find an answer online- do you think it is physically possible for celestial bodies to be arranged in a way that, to a planet's inhabitants, it looks like two suns rise and set in opposite directions? My friend asked this for worldbuilding, but I know that a planet can only rotate one way, so idk if it's physically possible unless a second small sun is caught in an orbit or something.
Anyway great job! I've been learning more about space and physics than I ever did from school.
Nifty
Will there be a video about how the great beings perceive the three virtues symbol?🤔
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At 4:50, why would the 2 even masses orbit each other rather than just colliding?
Same reason that a lot of stars are binary systems or even trinary systems IRL: Conservation of angular momentum. They orbit each other.
@@kennyholmes5196 thank you