Our Solar System From An Alien’s View

We have all seen models of our solar system, and with the new pics from Pluto sent by the New Horizon, even more detail of the planets themselves.  What would our solar system look like from an alien point of view though?

From NASA Astrophysics… a supercomputer simulation shows how alien astronomers might have seen the formation of our solar system. Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. Neptune’s gravitational imprint on the dust is always detectable in new simulations of how this dust moves through the solar system. By ramping up the collision rate, the simulations show how the distant view of the solar system might have changed over its history.

Let’s find out more and check out the video on page 2

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6 Comments

  1. Shawn M. Smith said:

    ALIENS: “there’s no way that any planet could live in that hostile solar system, they would all be smashed by all the asteroids orbiting it, unless the animals lived underground with gigantic thick Armor to stop the onslaught of meteor showers. .. let’s look at another potential. ..”

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