It's not laziness or scientific misunderstanding — an accurate, to-scale portrayal of the solar system just wouldn't look that interesting. You have to zoom in to see what's going on.
James O'Donoghue, a planetary scientist at the Japanese space agency (JAXA) and formerly at NASA , recently ran into this problem. He created a series of animations that explore the difficulty of accurately depicting our solar system.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Earth-like planets might be common, recent scientific discoveries show - Business Insider
A growing body of research indicates that there are likely billion of Earth-like planets that we haven't yet discovered.
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That means a rocky planet that's roughly the size of Earth. Scientists haven't exactly defined this size range, since they don't yet know how big rocky planets can be.
Kepler, which first launched in 2009, retired last year after it ran out of fuel. NASA passed the planet-hunting torch to the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), which launched in April 2018.
When the moon and planets align | ABS-CBN News
A rare lunar and planetary alignment at sunset is seen from Quezon City on Thursday. The picture shows a thin waxing crescent moon lining up with the planets Jupiter in the middle and Venus looking shinier and bigger in appearance from the Earth.
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For us the sun, at noon will appear at its lowest altitude above the southern horizon of the year and day length will be at its shortest. This means we skywatchers can get out to view the night sky at an earlier hour.
December also brings our 33rd annual Planetarium Christmas Program to the public at the Kent County High School. This year's all new program is entitled, "The Many Gifts of Christmas." As usual, the show is put together with the help of the staff and students of the high school's radio station, 90.5 WKHS-FM, and it tells the story, traditions and history of Christmas in our own special way.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Can Artificial Intelligence find new planets for us? – Sciworthy
TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) is NASA's new planet hunter, and the first mission of this kind that will cover the whole sky. The satellite is a space telescope equipped with 4 cameras that will help astronomers by discovering thousands of exoplanets orbiting nearby stars. It will do that by monitoring hundreds of thousands of stars for two years and collecting information about their light. Every time a planet passes in front of a star, some of the star's light is blocked.
Normally, these signals are analyzed by experts, who try to distinguish planets from other signal sources. Human decisions can be biased and, also, with the huge amount of data produced by TESS, we would need an army of scientists to analyze it. So, scientists are looking for a precise and automatic way of processing TESS data in order to detect these planet signals.
Researching planetary atmospheres
Speaking with Dr Rafkin, we learn more about his research regarding planetary atmospheres with a specialisation in numerical weather prediction, mesoscale modelling, atmospheric dynamics, and cloud microphysics. He has extensive experience developing weather and research modelling codes and has applied these to the study of weather, clouds, and aerosols for Earth, and to other terrestrial planetary atmospheres including Mars, Titan, Venus, and Pluto.
I have always been fascinated by the weather. Some of my earliest memories are pressing my face up against the window staring at snow storms, thunderstorms, and clouds (or running outside to be in them). I always excelled at the physical sciences in primary and secondary school, and when the time came to pick a major in college, I flipped to the appendix of the university catalogue and began to go down the alphabetical list looking for just the right scientific study program.
There are over 700 quintillion planets in the universe -- but there's no place like home
Climate change driving entire planet to dangerous 'global tipping point'
Evidence that irreversible changes in Earth's climate systems are underway means we are in a state of planetary emergency, leading climate scientists warn. A cascade of tipping points could amount to a global tipping point, where multiple earth systems march past the point of no return, they say.
That possibility is "an existential threat to civilization," write Tim Lenton and colleagues in this week's Nature .
Such a collapse of Earth's systems could lead to " hothouse earth " conditions with a global temperature rise of 9 degrees F (5 degrees C), sea levels rising 20 to 30 feet, the complete loss of the world's coral reefs and the Amazon forest, and with large parts of the planet uninhabitable.
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