Could the Firefly Universe Exist?

Firefly takes place in an incredibly complicated star system. But it probably couldn’t exist, because physics. Hosted by: Reid Reimers ---------- Dooblydoo thanks to the following Patreon supporters -- we couldn t make SciShow without them! Shout outs go to Justin Ove, Chris Peters, John Szymakowski, Peso255, Fatima Iqbal, Justin Lentz, and David Campos. ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/SciShow Or help support us by becoming our patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Sources: http://i.picresize.com/images/2013/02/06/BMhCv.jpg http://pics.fireflyprops.net/TVIN-2.1.pdf https://keepflying.com/the-cortex-app/video-the-cortexs-map-of-the-verse http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2012/06/aa18051-11/aa18051-11.html http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014ApJ...791..111W http://arxiv.org/pdf/1303.6442v1.pdf http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/content/389/2/869.full.pdf http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/783/1/3/pdf/apj_783_1_3.pdf http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1988PASP..100..834H/0000835.000.html http://www.solstation.com/orbits/cas-absys.htm http://www.solstation.com/stars2/castor6.htm http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/observatory_l2.html