• Question: Over time while a planet gets larger can it burst if it get too cold ?

    Asked by Ami_awesome to Chris on 16 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Chris Conselice

      Chris Conselice answered on 16 Mar 2016:


      Not really. Planets would explode if they got too hot, but not too cold. Cold things in the universe don’t move too much, so they often contract rather than expand.

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