Alt text: They’re up there with coral islands, lightning, and caterpillars turning into butterflies.

  • Gladaed@feddit.org
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    15 hours ago

    But is that unusual? That’s just pretty normal, no?

    Any planet with a liquid core is bound to have one.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      14 hours ago

      Maybe‽

      We don’t have much of a basis for comparison outside of our solar system just yet, but we should have better data soon.

      And it being “normal” would just make it more science fictiony. =D

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        14 hours ago

        We probably won’t have better data soon. Actually resolving planets directly is incredibly far out of reach. Measuring their core is implausible.

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          13 hours ago

          The core, no, but detecting the effects of a magnetic field are not out of the question.