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Thanks. I thought the purpose of that thread was for already existing material ...

The OP asked for us to share our experiences. I think my response is relevant to the question. Whether the OP will derive any benefit from my experience will be determined by the OP. Why bicker about this?

I'm looking for assistance in designing an alien race, for lack for a better term. I'd like insights from people familiar with biology etc. Where is the best place to post such a question and follow up questions? Or is such a discussion entirely inappropriate for this forum? Thanks.

I got married midway through my undergraduate studies, and in fact welcomed my first child only a month or so after graduating. I worked for two years, during which time I did a year of online study for a graduate program that eventually was axed due to budget cuts. I ended up quitting my job...

I can push the gas giant out, thus decreasing the temperature. Are there not instances of binary systems with planets that have stable orbits? I don't have the faintest idea how to calculate Jovian orbits, let alone any type of orbit. (Jovian means gas giant, is that correct?) What if the...

I'm not married to the luminosity of the star, so it may be easier to just tone it down one or two magnitudes. As for the distances between the two stars, I'm not entirely sure. Based upon the article I referenced earlier, it would seem that having the two stars close and orbiting one another...

So if the gas giant is moved further out, it'll cool down the temperatures. Add some atmosphere and albedo to keep it from getting too chilly. Or is it albedo that decreases heat? I have a hard time remembering that one.

So the moon needs to be further out from the gas giant in order to remain free from tidal lock? By the way, all of this is very helpful. Thank you everyone.

At the moon's distance, the software is telling me the orbit around the gas giant is approximately 10 local days. So this means it would take that many days to transition from day to night and back? So this could be sped up by moving the moon closer to the gas giant, which then introduces...

Does this address your concern in any way? http://www.astrobio.net/news-exclusive/two-suns-could-make-more-habitable-moons/

For clarity, tidally locked means there is no rotation? The same side of the moon faces the gas giant the entire time? So essentially one side will always be day and the other night?

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when looking at distance, although not quite at the same level of technical understanding. Pushing the distance further away would help cool things down.

Thanks for the quick reply. Using Astrosynthesis v2.0, I get the following information: Multistar system Star 1: Mass 0.55, Radius 0.62, Luminosity 0.13 sols (all relative to our sun) Star 2: Mass 1.57, Radius 1.44, Luminosity 4.8 sols (all relative to our sun) Total of 12 primary satellites...

I'm doing some world-building at the moment for a fantasy setting and would like some help, please. When it comes to physics etc, I'm like the kid who looks at the cool pictures of kung fu masters doing awesome kung fu stuff; less experienced than the student wielding a brand new white belt...