A planet is in an elliptical orbit around a distant star. At its closest approach, the planet is 0.710 AU from the star and has a speed of 54.0 km/s. When the planet is at its farthest distance from the star of 41.0 AU, what is its speed (in km/s)? (1 AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun and is equal to 1.496 ✕ 1011 m. You may assume that other planets and smaller objects in the star system exert negligible forces on the planet.)

We can infer that star y is closer but other factors must be considered include the heat of the star, the mass, and the brightness of the star. even though star x seems dimmer it may just be less bright or contains less heat.

Stars are born within the clouds of dust and scattered throughout most galaxies. a familiar example of such as a dust cloud is the orion nebula. turbulence deep within these clouds gives rise to knots with sufficient mass that the gas and dust can begin to collapse under its own gravitational attraction. as the cloud collapses, the material at the center begins to heat up. known as a protostar, it is this hot core at the heart of the collapsing cloud that will one day become a star. three-dimensional computer models of star formation predict that the spinning clouds of collapsing gas and dust may break up into two or three blobs; this would explain why the majority the stars in the milky way are paired or in groups of multiple stars.therefor, i would say the answer is: dust and gases contract.i hope this ! < 3