Jupiter and Saturn are the giant planets that reside just beyond the realm of the personal planets, but not quite so far away as the three outermost planets are. That said, their influence on us (as well as the effects of their retrogrades) may be felt a little more personally than the rest of the outer planets. "Jupiter retrograde is a time to reassess ethics and honor, [and] also to look within and recourse one's philosophy," astrologer Lisa Stardust tells Bustle.
Let's move onto the three outermost planets. These planetary retrogrades are helping us to integrate information, dreams, deep truths into our consciousness — and subsequently help usher in a new perspective for the collective, too. "Uranus retrograde is a time to understand information that's been revealed to us, Neptune retrograde is a time to let our dreams help us innovate for the future, and Pluto retrograde is a time to transform and let go of the past," Stardust says.
In case you are keeping track:
New Study Finds at Least 45 Planets With Qualities Similar to Earth | Science Times
It involves utilizing existing data on atmospheric species—or chemicals in their atmosphere—and how fast these chemicals exit into space. This data allows them to determine an exoplanet's similarity to our own Earth in terms of both chemical composition and average temperature.
To test their newly-developed method, researchers tested it on 55 potentially habitable worlds whose data are available in the updated exoplanet catalog —focusing on exoplanets found in the so-called " Goldilocks zone " or the habitable zone of their respective galaxies as well as the star that hosts these planets.
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Top space missions to each planet (one former) in our solar system
The Hubble Space Telescope turned 30 years old earlier this year. While circling Earth, it has captured some of the clearest and most iconic images of outer space. But NASA's robotic crafts have visited other worlds up close and personal, and there is nothing quite like being there. These are the top space missions to each planet (and one former planet) in our solar system.
Before 2011, we didn't know what half of Mercury looked like. The planet is so close to the sun that ground-based telescopes cannot see it clearly. It was that year when NASA's Messenger spacecraft started circling Mercury and provided the first global map of this heavily-cratered and desolate world.
While you're here, how about this:
SymphonyCast: The Planets | Vermont Public Radio
Minnesota Orchestra
Osmo Vanska, conductor
Michael Collins, clarinet
Women of the Minnesota Chorale
Roustom: Ramal
John Adams: Gnarly Buttons
Holst: The Planets
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
Planetary Society Grant Winner Discovers… | The Planetary Society
An amateur astronomer has discovered a kilometer-wide asteroid that would create global devastation if it were to hit the Earth. Thankfully that won't happen: the asteroid will miss our planet by 40 million kilometers as it passes on 10 September 2020, more than 100 times the distance between Earth and the Moon.
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Amateur astronomer Leonardo Amaral discovered the asteroid at the Campo dos Amarais observatory in Brazil. The Planetary Society in 2019 awarded Amaral an $8,500 grant to purchase a more stable telescope mount for better tracking and longer camera exposures. The Society's Shoemaker NEO Grant program funds advanced amateur astronomers around the world who find, track, and characterize potentially dangerous space rocks.
A weirdly warped planet-forming disk circles a distant trio of stars | Science News
In one of the most complex cosmic dances astronomers have yet spotted, three rings of gas and dust circle a trio of stars.
The star system GW Orionis, located about 1,300 light-years away in the constellation Orion, includes a pair of young stars locked in a close do-si-do with a third star making loops around both. Around all three stars is a broken-apart disk of dust and gas where planets could one day form.
The bizarre geometry of this system, the first known of its kind, is reported in two recent studies by two groups of astronomers. But how GW Orionis formed is a mystery, with the two teams providing competing ideas for the triple-star-and-ring system's birth.
A Planetary Mystery is Solved, and it's Bill… | The Planetary Society
JPL's Marc Rayman, former Dawn mission director, reveals the secrets of those bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres. First though we celebrate Bill Nye's 10 th anniversary as CEO of The Planetary Society. Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Vaughn is followed by the Science Guy himself. And there's a Nye invention at the heart of this week's What's Up space trivia contest.
Cheers to 10 Years of Bill Nye as The Planetary Society's CEO Robert Picardo toasts Bill Nye on his 10th anniversary of being CEO of The Planetary Society.
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