DID THE SUN EAT A PLANET?
Description
Our Sun may have swallowed a planet more than five times Earth’s mass. If so, what does that say about the fine-tuning of our solar system?
In this episode of Stars, Cells, and God, Hugh Ross and Fazale “Fuz” Rana unpack a new study suggesting that the young Sun engulfed a super-Earth—a rocky planet larger than Earth, the most common type astronomers find around other stars, yet missing from our own solar system. The idea could help explain several puzzling features of the Sun.
In this episode, they discuss:
- Why astronomers haven’t found a twin of the Sun
- What makes the Sun and its rocky planets unusual
- How a swallowed super-Earth could explain several anomalies
- Why the explanation still requires fine-tuning
- How the Roman Space Telescope could test the claim
- Why Mars’s small size matters for astronomy
- What it all says about God’s love for you
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