Universe Sandbox

I bought this “game” on Steam for like 3 bucks. It’s called Universe Sandbox. Basically it’s a simulator. Aside from allowing you to watch all the orbits, zoom in/out etc, you can mess around with stuff. Here I added a ton of extra Jupiters to the vicinity of Earth’s orbit

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They soon throw earth out of its orbit

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What if all the small planets orbited earth

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Screw up Saturn’s rings by adding Earth as a moon

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Crash some galaxies together

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Simulation to show how close Apophis will pass to the Earth

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The La Grange points:

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A very large star compared to our star:

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Very cool.