Essay Sample on Creating My Own Star System: Project S

Introduction

I am going to name my star project S. The solar system consists of eight planets that orbit around a star called the sun. Amongst the planets, there is the earth that supports life, and it is where we live. There are some planets close to the sun, such as mercury, Venus, Earth, and mars. During their formation, they condensed and cooled near the sun, which explains why they are close. In this project, I will create my star that is project S. I am also going to develop my planets some close to the project S and other far apart.

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Project S is not going to be bigger than the natural sun; I am going to make it half the sun's size. The sun's circumference is estimated to be around 2,713,406 miles (Bahr et al., 2016). I want my project S to be about 1, 356,703 miles. I will be doing so to reduce the effects that the star would induce to the planets. I prefer a nebula that is a half size that formed the sun to achieve my goal of creating project S, half the size of the sun. My nebula would spin at a relatively lower speed compared to that used in the sun's formation. It will consist of a massive amount of clouds comprised of light materials such as hydrogen Helium and dust to allow it to float in the sky. The nebula would spin at a slower speed; this means it will not move too far distances apart, and this can aid in the process of fusion.

The Formation of the Sun

During the formation of the sun, materials within the nebula itself started contracting and splitting on their own (Ceccarelli et al., 2019). Likewise, my nebular will start contracting and breaking because of the internal forces. I expect the materials to move smaller distances apart. Nuclear fusion will allow protons in the center of the Hydrogen and Helium protons to start fusing to form project S. The splitting forces in my nebula will get reduced, which means that the particles are not going to move vast distances apart; this will ensure that the size of project S is small compared to that of the natural sun. If the forces are extreme, there is a likelihood that the materials can move further distances aside, and they cannot link to form project S.

In my project S, a cloud will form then start to shrink because of its gravitational pull. The gravitational pull would pull the clouds inwards as they shrink, and this gives them the spherical characteristics of a star-like sun. The gravitational pull will apply equally to all the directions making project S to maintain its spherical shape. Three conservative laws that help the nebula maintain its shape are; energy, momentum, and angular momentum (Zwart, 2019). Energy allows gas particles to spin at a faster rate as they get pulled inwards. Increased collisions make kinetic energy turn into thermal energy. The gaseous nebula does not start moving immediately; it maintains the momentum. The nebula then starts spinning in angular momentum at a slower rate. The nebula starts heating, and this makes the particles to start spinning faster. The collisions between the particles results in a flattened disc with the large materials near the center and more heat concentrated in the center. The whole process results in a disc-shaped project S that is half the size of the sun.

The Materials

The materials that fell off the nebula during the sun's formation attracted others through gravitational pull to form the eight planets. The neutrons of the atoms fused to form the planets and swept their ways clean to form their orbits. Likewise, materials falling off my nebula will condense to form five planets surrounding project S. They will then sweep their paths to create orbits and maintain the force that can enable them to revolve around the star. I will make one of the planets that I will name project L to support life by ensuring that it has the right medium, such as water and carbon, to help life thrive. Project S will have some features that will differentiate it from the typical sun. Its formation is slower compared to that of the sun; the spinning rate is slow. It is half the size of the normal of the sun. My project S will have five planets orbiting around it, unlike the sun with eight planets spinning around it. I also expect the planets to get formed closer to the sun because the nebula will be spinning slower.

Conclusion

To conclude, project S will form my ideal star. It is half the size of the sun and consists of five planets orbiting around it. The spinning of the nebula during formation is quite slow, so I expect the planets to appear close to the sun. One of the planets, project L, will support lives like the planet earth. It will have the appropriate chemical ingredients such as water and carbon and light from project S to support biodiversity.

References

Bahr, B., Lemmer, B., & Piccolo, R. (2016). Birth of the Solar System. In Quirky Quarks (pp. 58-61). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49509-4_15

Ceccarelli, C., Favre, C., Lopez-Sepulcre, A., & Fontani, F. (2019). Hydrogen molecular ions and the violent birth of the Solar System. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 377(2154), 20180403. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2018.0403

Zwart, S. P. (2019). The formation of solar-system analogs in young star clusters. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 622, A69. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201833974