The night sky has no boundaries. Many note-worthy astronomical events have been attention-worthy this month , and now you have one more to add to your calendar : an almost two-week long period when you can visibly see six planets in the sky.
Starting on the evening of July 28, 2020, six planets will be fairly visible in the night sky that gives you a good chance of seeing them. Timeanddate.com , a time zone-related website, has an interactive Night Sky Map that reveals Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus will all be at least partially visible in the sky—leaving Neptune to be the only planet marked as “difficult to see.”
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Scientists Unveil First Ever Pictures of Multiple Planets around a Sunlike Star - Scientific
For the first time ever, scientists have managed to capture images of multiple planets twirling about another sunlike star. Yet despite its stellar host’s resemblance to our own, the snapshots of this planetary system reveal it to be no place like home.
Named TYC 8998-760-1 and located about 300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Musca, the star is similar in mass to the sun. Its two known planets, however, are distinctly alien—orbiting their star at about 160 and 320 times the Earth-sun distance, respectively (spans that are about four and eight times greater than Pluto’s separation from our sun). Both worlds are supersized, compared with anything in our solar system.
Look, human, it's the first photo of planets orbiting a sun 300 light years away
The planetary system TYC 8998–760–1, sitting 300 light years from Earth, shows a pair of massive worlds orbiting a star much like our own Sun. The team of astronomers took a pair of images of the system showing movement of the planets around their star.
Images of solar systems showing more than one planet have been recorded twice before in recent years. However, this image marks the first time a pair of giant planets have been seen orbiting around a young, star-like star.
First image of multi-planet system around Sun-like star taken by ESO
Europe's Very large Telescope photos reveal relatively young, star orbited by two giant exoplanets.
ESO's first image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star.
The European Southern Observatory 's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the first image of a young, "Sun-like" star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, says the ESO, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to our Sun.
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Hubble Sees Summertime on Saturn | NASA
News | 'Disk Detective' Needs Your Help Finding Disks Where Planets Form
Planets form from gas and dust particles swirling around baby stars in enormous spinning disks. But because this process takes millions of years, scientists can only learn about these disks by finding and studying a lot of different examples.
Through a project called Disk Detective , you can help. Anyone, regardless of background or prior knowledge, can assist scientists in figuring out the mysteries of planet formation. Disk Detective is an example of citizen science , a collaboration between professional scientists and members of the public.
Artificial intelligence predicts which planetary systems will survive
While three planets have been detected in the Kepler-431 system, little is known about their orbits. On the left are a large number of superimposed orbits for each planet that are consistent with observations. On the right, a computer model (SPOCK) from Princeton's Daniel Tamayo has removed the unstable configurations that would have already collided. Doing this with previous methods would take over a year of computer time. With SPOCK, it takes 14 minutes.
Rejecting the large range of unstable possibilities — all the configurations that would lead to collisions — would leave behind a sharper view of planetary systems around other stars, but it's not as easy as it sounds.
Planet Fitness to require gym goers to wear masks
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Starting Saturday, anyone visiting or working out at a Planet Fitness location will need to wear a mask for the duration of their visit.
Already, employees at the gym franchise's 1,450 locations have been required to wear facial coverings but on Monday, the company made the announcement that the rule will be expanded to include members and guests.
"As we continue to face the COVID-19 pandemic, amid an ongoing global health crisis, wellness has never been as essential to our collective community as it is today," CEO Chris Rondeau wrote in a news release. "Gyms are part of the solution and a key element of the healthcare delivery system, providing much needed access for people to exercise and stay healthy.
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Six planets will be visible for 12 days straight—here's when you need to be outside: https://t.co/SUlcbYKiGD https://t.co/ShFVfAl7ll AptTherapy Mon Jul 27 17:33:02 +0000 2020
For the stargazers out there, tonight will be a special night to stay up late with a cup of coffee and look up. 4 p… https://t.co/llmYHQCnQq Forbes (from New York, NY) Mon Jul 20 16:44:03 +0000 2020
🪐 Not 1, not 2, but 5 planets in our #solarsystem will be visible in the early morning sky at the same time this we… https://t.co/rU2y8V8qbd AdlerPlanet (from Chicago, Illinois) Wed Jul 22 20:30:04 +0000 2020
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