Spaceception

In honor of TRAPPIST-1, here's a short story I wrote, in a few months, this may be turned into a novel series

I wrote a short story that may get turned into a novel series in a few months or so

The entire system is roughly ~17,951,744 km wide. That's if planet h orbits ~8,975,872 km away. Which is insane, that's a little over 23 Earth-Moon distance from the star to planet h, with 134,672 km of room. For reference, if Mars and Earth were as close as possible, which is 54.6 million kilometers (Which has never happened in history), the entire system could fit between them, with about ~36,650,000 million km of room

Starshot is supposed to go at 20% the speed of light, so it would take ~200 years to get there. Antimatter, if we could travel at 40% the speed of light, would take ~80-100 years.

Yeah, you wouldn't feel that much heavier, it'd be like having a lightweight backpack on you, only without the bulkiness. Although, I really want to visit T-1d

So Auxo is the big boy of the bunch.

@Gaarst So I did it for all the potentially habitable planets Trappist 1d: .687g Trappist 1e: .73g Trappist 1f: .614g And Trappist 1g; 1.065g

Woah. That is really good. What're their gravities?

Since the planets experience tides with each other, could that mean their cores are hot and liquidy, and as such, could have strong magnetospheres?

LIVESTREAM!

EDIT: Ninga'd by @Gaarst Alright, I'll take a crack at this, ESI is Earth similarity index, and goes from 0.0 (Not even remotely Earthlike) to 1.0 (An exact twin, or as close as you can get to one), TRAPPIST-1d has an ESI of 0.9 or 90% on the scale. Right Ascension (Taken from google): The distance of a point east of the First Point of Aries, measured along the celestial equator and expressed in hours, minutes, and seconds. Declination (Also from google): The angular distance of a point north or south of the celestial equator. Constellation: A group of stars that make a pattern in the sky, like the Big Dipper. Apparent magnitudes (From good ol' wiki): The apparent magnitude of a celestial object a number that is a measure of its brightness as seen by an observer on Earth. The brighter an object appears, the lower its magnitude value (i.e. inverse relation). The Sun, at apparent magnitude of −27, is the brightest object in the sky. Parallax (Google): Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight, and is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines. Distance: Pretty straightforward, for light years, it's 5.878625 trillion miles. For Parsecs, it's 19.173511577 trillion miles. Mass: The mass of an object in Astronomy is usually comparing one body with the Earth, Jupiter, or the Sun, depending on how massive it is, the same is for Radius, comparing the radius of a planet or star compared to the Earth, Jupiter, or the Sun. Density (From google): The term density appears in astronomy in many different contexts. In its most generic use the density is the mass per unit volume of an object or region and might have units like kg/m^3 or Mo/pc^3. Effective temperature (Google): the temperature of an object calculated from the radiation it emits, assuming black-body behavior. Luminosity (From wiki): In astronomy, luminosity is the total amount of energy emitted by a star, galaxy, or other astronomical object per unit time.[1] It is related to the brightness, which is the luminosity of an object in a given spectral region. Metallicity (From google): In astronomy and physical cosmology, the metallicity or Z is the fraction of mass of a star or other kind of astronomical object that is not in hydrogen (X) or helium (Y). Age: How old an object is, I believe in astronomy, they measure the age by millions or billions of years.

@ProtoJeb21 Already has you covered He says he's working on the new findings.

With Starshot, it would only take ~200 years. A long time, but way faster than New horizons, or Dawn.

1d seems like the perfect planet you'd want to live, on, the gravity is lower than Earth's, and the temperature is likely tropical. Blue plant life? That sounds super awesome! Wait, are you serious? This planet is covered in an ocean? That's what I was thinking too, although my thought was that it got so big because as the inner planets lost some of their water, 1g picked it up, and it gained a deep ocean. That would be pretty cool. Now when are we gonna set up shop? That's the perfect place to colonize, even if they don't have life, it's all so compact, and Terraforming could be an option.

AHHHHH! http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog TRAPPIST-1d has an ESI of .9!!!! 1e has one of .86 1f, .68 and 1g .58 Holy ****

Thanks! The intro was just to get the story going, chapter two will be chapter one in the second draft, and will be slightly rewritten to have a better opening. While chapter one will be inserted somewhere in the middle of the book.

I've got months at least before I've taken enough off of my plate to start writing, and in that time, I can research. How's the B-day celebrations going?

That'd be one hell of an ending, but I think either humans don't exist, and it's just in the same universe, or humans never get around to colonizing the system, either because they don't need too, they found the aliens and are trying to leave them alone, or wiped themselves out. Bottom line, humans won't be seen or mentioned. I've already written a partial first chapter in my head

Laughs along with you I kinda want to write a sci-fi series on it at some point, following an Alien civ evolving in the system.

ALIENS!!! Hopefully.

I'm already thinking about a book series. ALIENS!

That with Space engine? It looks amazing. Also, you work fast, either that or planet editor is easier to use than I thought (I still haven't gotten SE )