scientific accuracy
some of this is one-in-a-billion type stuff, but a lot of it actually makes sense. going closest to the sun, outward.
the world of fire and ice (red and purple planet)
- Astronomers call this an "Eyeball Planet". One face permanently bakes in sun (red magma), the other freezes in eternal night (purple ice).
- It has to sit very close to its star to be tidally locked, which is why it's the innermost planet here.
- Its rotation equals its orbit, if it takes 20 days to circle the sun, it takes 20 days to spin once.
- The star's gravity stretches it into a slight oval pointing at the sun.
- The most scientifically plausible planet here, astronomers think planets like this actually exist around red dwarf stars.
earth
- Yes, in this universe it's flat. Don't think about it too hard.
two-tone snowman (the contact binary)
- A "contact binary planet": two planets touching while orbiting each other and the sun. Mathematically possible but extremely rare, planets are usually too solid to stay in contact without merging.
- The big yellow-green lobe is covered in active sulfur volcanoes, like Jupiter's moon Io.
- The small icy lobe is the opposite, dark and covered in methane and frozen nitrogen because it's tidally locked away from the sun.
- The two have to orbit their shared center every few hours and stay tidally locked face-to-face to not collapse.
- Their joint wobble means the icy lobe is slowly losing gases to the larger one's gravity, forming a faint frost bridge.
pink gas giant with rings (the vibes planet)
- The pink is real. Exoplanet GJ 504b glows magenta because it's still hot from formation, with methane clouds tinting it pink.
- It sits past the "frost line", any closer to the sun and the rings would evaporate.
- The intersecting rings are physically impossible. Particles orbit at thousands of miles per hour and would grind to dust at the crossings.
- In real life, those crossed rings would settle into one flat plane (like Saturn's) within a few thousand years.
- So the planet itself is real science, the chaotic rings are just vibes, kind of like my personal life.
the donut (toroidal planet)
- A toroidal planet is mathematically possible but on a razor's edge. Gravity wants to pull it into a sphere, so it has to spin insanely fast to fight that.
- If this donut had Earth's mass, a single day would last only 2 to 3 hours.
- Your weight would change depending on where you walked, lighter on the outer rim, heavier on the inner.
- It sits at the far edge because it's so fragile, any nearby massive planet's gravity could tear it apart.
- The hole in the middle is pitch black, freezing cold, and acts as a gravitational trap for stray space dust.