A new study says that even a small shift in Jupiter's orbit could increase the livability of some parts of our planet.
. A new study has astronomers looking closer to home, with some saying a shift in Jupiter’s orbit could drastically affect Earth.suggests that a certain shift in the orbit our Solar System’s largest planet follows could make parts of the Earth more livable. This shift, they say, would have to make Jupiter’s orbit more flattened, or ‘eccentric.’ If that happened, the planet would come closer to Earth, which would also cause changes in our planet’s orbit.has a massive gravitational pull.
That means places like Antarctica and the Arctic would see massive changes to the temperatures, and other very cold locations worldwide would, too. Alternatively, it would also probably mean warmer temperatures in places where the heat already swelters, which could lead to some other complications.On the other side of things, though, the researchers say that a small shift in Jupiter’s orbit the wrong way—if it were to move closer to the Sun—would lead to terrible consequences for the Earth.
and scientists looking deeper into the early universe, there’s so much we don’t fully understand about our universe. This research, along with other studies like it, could help us find habitable planets, and understand more about what conditions planets need to properly meet to support life.
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