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See 7 Breathtaking New Photos Of The 'King Of Planets' Taken This Week By NASA's Juno Spacecraft
Jupiter's Folded Filamentary Region as photographed by NASA's Juno spacecraft during its Perijove ... [+] 36—and processed by Kevin M. Gill.
NASA's Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has sent back another batch of stunning photos of the giant planet.
How many planets are there in the universe?
One of the earliest lessons you learn in school is that our Solar System is made up of eight planets – plus Pluto.
Add all of that together and you'll quickly find that our universe contains... quite a lot of planets.
Scientists ultimately have no idea how many are out there in total. We still don't have the technology to observe anything beyond the Milky Way.
Scientists inferred the distribution of cold planets in the Milky Way - Tech Explorist
Our Galaxy, Milky Way is almost 100,000 light-years across. It is quite difficult for scientists to determine the Galactic distribution of planets.
Scientists at Osaka University and NASA have overcome this hurdle. They combined observations and modeling to infer the distribution of cold planets in the Milky Way. They identified how the planet-hosting probability varies with the distance from the Galactic center.
When a star eats a planet, it's probably the planet's fault
Most of the stars in the Milky Way are red dwarfs, or M-types while the Sun is a yellow dwarf, or G-type. Our star's species is a rarity in this galaxy because one out of every three or four M-type stars has had a planet for dinner.
Lorenzo Spina of the Astronomical Observatory of Padua in Italy and Monash University in Australia, led a study on this phenomenon, which was recently published in Nature Astronomy .
Planetarium Show: Dance of the Planets || St. Petersburg College
View from Mars Hill: The planets and their ties to the days of the week | Columnists |
The seven-day week goes back to ancient times and several theories explain its origin. In fact, multiple cultures may have independently conceived of the idea, and for different reasons. Different names are therefore used today by different cultures.
Some naming systems are simply based on order.
My master thesis in 400 words: Timothy Hallatt | Institute for Research on Exoplanets
Timothy Hallatt , an iREx student at McGill University, submitted his MSc thesis in the Summer of 2021. He summarizes here the research projects he conducted as part of his MSc degree.
The past decade has seen a revolution in exoplanetary astronomy. With the discovery of more than ~4000 planets from the Kepler space telescope (2009-2018), we now know that planets come in a stunning variety of sizes and characteristics.
Yale researchers discover potential key for space travel on Mars and Titan - Yale Daily News
The ability to predict the weather on planets, such as Mars, and on Saturn's moon Titan could help ensure the safety of space missions, both manned and unmanned.
A recent Yale study conducted by two members of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences could have crucial implications for the future of space travel.
Stellarium Mobile Plus review | Space
The Stellarium Mobile Plus app is one of the better stargazing apps available, but its navigational controls and asteroid database are lacking in comparison to its direct competitor, SkySafari 3.
Nowadays our phones serve as a digital Swiss Army Knife, ready to provide guidance and functionality at the touch of a finger.
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