NASA planetary scientist Geronimo Villanueva simulated sunsets on different worlds with a modeling tool for a potential mission to Uranus. The result: this lovely palette of colors.
This May Be the First Planet Found Orbiting 3 Stars at Once - The New York Times
GW Ori is a star system 1,300 light years from Earth in the constellation of Orion. It is surrounded by a huge disk of dust and gas, a common feature of young star systems that are forming planets. But fascinatingly, it is a system with not one star, but three.
As if that were not intriguing enough, GW Ori's disk is split in two, almost like Saturn's rings if they had a massive gap in between. And to make it even more bizarre, the outer ring is tilted at about 38 degrees.
Earth and Venus grew up as rambunctious planets -- ScienceDaily
Planet formation -- the process by which neat, round, distinct planets form from a roiling, swirling cloud of rugged asteroids and mini planets -- was likely even messier and more complicated than most scientists would care to admit, according to new research led by researchers at the University
Exploring Alien Planets: New Cereal Box-Sized Spacecraft Has Mighty Goals
A new miniature satellite designed and built at CU Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) is providing proof that “cute” things can take on big scientific challenges.
The Colorado Ultraviolet Transit Experiment (CUTE) is slated to launch into space on September 27, 2021.
6 Planets Are Retrograde, Here's How to Make the Best of Their Moonwalk
The end of September and the beginning of October bring six planets (Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto) into retrograde motion. All this uncertainty and emotional swinging will make our heads spin, unless we know how to use the energy correctly—which we are here to explain.
Evidence Indicates There's Another Planet the Size of Mars in Our Solar System
The eight official planets aren't the only ones that survived the formation of our solar system, and the Earth might have another sister planet lurking somewhere in interstellar space, in a "third zone" of the solar system, according to a recent paper published in the journal Annual Review
Scientists may have discovered a planet orbiting three stars at the same time
The Earth revolves around one star, the Sun. And the other planets in the solar system, as the name implies, follow the path. But, of course, we are a very small part of the universe.
Until then, recording these binary systems had been the furthest thing researchers had come to.
You might be wondering: How do researchers “think” they’ve found a planet? Currently, there is no record of the body, but rather a major hypothesis derived from observations of the GW Uri star system, located 1,300 light-years from Earth.
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