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

  • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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    1 day 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

    • Gladaed@feddit.org
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      1 day ago

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

      • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

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