E258 - Earth the Size of Jupiter, Golden Saturn Rings, Rogue Planets & Protecting Low-Earth Orbit

On this episode of Kalam Astro, we're stretching the imagination, bending the rules of physics, and asking some of the biggest questions in modern space science — from planetary what-ifs to the future of the space around our own planet.

We kick things off with one of the most mind-bending thought experiments in astronomy — what would actually happen if Planet Earth were the same size as Jupiter? How would gravity change? What would happen to life, to our oceans, to our atmosphere? We explore what a supersized Earth would look like and whether anything we know toda...