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What If These Exoplanets Orbited Our Sun?

What If | March 29, 2026



What if we took some of the most fascinating exoplanets ever discoveredโ€ฆ and dropped them straight into our own Solar System? In this episode, we drag distant worlds thousands of light-years closer to home and test what would really happen if they orbited our Sun instead of their native stars. From the promising Earth-like TRAPPIST-1 e to massive super-Earths, frozen rogue worlds, and a jaw-dropping super-Saturn with rings wider than Mercuryโ€™s orbit, things get wild fast.

00:00 What If These Exoplanets Orbited Our Sun?
00:18 TRAPPIST-1e
06:49 Kepler-442 b
11:12 OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb
15:43 J1407b

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  3. @Mocro405

    March 29, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    Glory be to Allah. He creates whatever He wills. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth.

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    Surah Al-Aโ€˜raf (7:54)

    โ€œIndeed, your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself above the Throne.โ€

    Surah Yunus (10:3)

    โ€œIndeed, your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne, arranging the matter.โ€

    Surah Hud (11:7)

    โ€œAnd it is He who created the heavens and the earth in six daysโ€”and His Throne had been upon waterโ€”to test you as to which of you is best in deed.โ€

    Surah Al-Furqan (25:59)

    โ€œHe who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days, then established Himself above the Throneโ€”the Most Merciful.โ€

    Surah As-Sajdah (32:4)

    โ€œAllah is the One who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days, then established Himself above the Throne.โ€

    Surah Qaf (50:38)

    โ€œAnd We did certainly create the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days, and no fatigue touched Us.โ€

    Surah Al-Hadid (57:4)

    โ€œIt is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days and then established Himself above the Throne. He knows what enters the earth and what comes out of itโ€ฆโ€

  15. @HD80606b

    March 29, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    Why do people still drag the J1407b myth, its been said a while back that J1407b is most likely a rogue brown dwarf that eclipsed V1400 Centauri.
    And those "rings" are protoplanetary disks, similar to OTS 44.

  18. @PlanetGuy901

    March 29, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    I donโ€™t know if you heard, but Mamajekโ€™s Object (J1407b) isnโ€™t a Super Saturn planet. It doesnโ€™t orbit a star, and it doesnโ€™t have rings. This leaves only one possibility: Mamajekโ€™s Object is a rouge object that just happened to pass in front of the star V1400 Centauri. It drifts through space without a star to orbit. And its giga rings are actually a debris disk where moons are being formed. Itโ€™s a rouge object forming its own moon system, and those moons are destined for darkness, just like their parent. It sucks that Mamajekโ€™s Object, which we thought was a Super Saturn, has actually turned out to be one of billions or even trillions of rouge planets drifting through the galaxy without any star to orbit. But itโ€™s the truth about this planet.

  22. @SketchyHypothetica

    March 29, 2026 at 3:20 pm

    I love how this video blends real astronomy with โ€œwhat ifโ€ scenarios. Comparing Earthโ€‘like worlds and massive exoplanets in our Solar System made me rethink how unique our neighborhood really is.

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