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have a direct effect on planets’ orbits and even their very exis-
tence. Were they any closer, gravitational attraction between
stars would destabilize the planets' orbits, causing extreme fluc-
tuation in temperatures. Had they been any farther, the distrib-
ution of heavier elements, shooting into space from supernovas,
would have never reached the density required to form planets

like our solid Earth.
The existing distances between stars are just right to permit
the existence of solar systems like ours.
Michael Denton, a renowned Professor of Biochemistry,
writes in his book Nature’s Destiny:

The distances between supernovae and indeed between all stars
is critical for other reasons. The distance between stars in our
galaxy is about 30 million miles. If this distance was much less,
planetary orbits would be destabilized. If it was much more, then
the debris thrown out by a supernova would be so diffusely dis-
tributed that planetary systems like our own would in all proba-
bility never form. If the cosmos is to be a home for life, then the
flickering of the supernovae must occur at a very precise rate and
the average distance between them, and indeed between all stars,
must be very close to the actual observed figure. 12

In The Symbiotic Universe, astronomer George Greenstein
writes about these mind-boggling distances:
Had the stars been somewhat closer, astrophysics would not have
been so very different. The fundamental physical processes oc-
curring within stars, nebulas, and the like would have proceeded
unchanged. The appearance of our galaxy as seen from some far-

distant vantage point would have been the same. About the only
difference would have been the view of the night time sky from

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