The planets of the solar system are varied in their appearance. Mercury is slate gray while Venus is pearly white, Earth a vibrant blue, and Mars a dusky red.
As it turns out, stars and their planets form at the same time from a disk of gas and dust known as a solar nebula.
At the same time, debris mixed into the nebula collided over and over again, eventually accreting into planetesimals and then protoplanets.
Hawaiian scientists discover one of the youngest planets ever seen - CBS
An international research team led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has discovered one of the youngest planets ever observed. The findings, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , estimate the planet is a "few times more massive" than Jupiter.
How to spot the 'elusive' planet Mercury in the night sky this month | Space
For the next two and a half weeks, early-morning skywatchers will have an excellent opportunity to spot the so-called "elusive planet" — Mercury .
Two planets are closer to the sun than Earth is — Venus and Mercury — and are known as the "inferior" planets. Venus orbits the sun once every seven and a half months and gains a whole lap on the slower-moving Earth every 584 days.
If you ever wanted to help find new planets, now's your chance | Ars Technica
If you've ever wanted to search for distant worlds, your time has come. The team behind a planet-hunting telescope array called the Next-Generation Transit Survey (NGTS) is looking for help with the large volume of data the instrument has produced.
The team now has a lot of data, which it has sifted through using computers. But computers have difficulty distinguishing a likely planet from various sources of noise, so the researchers are asking the public to double-check the computers and provide a final call on what a signal is.
Scientists find strange black 'superionic ice' that could exist inside other planets | University
Everyone knows about ice, liquid and vapor—but, depending on the conditions, water can actually form more than a dozen different structures. Scientists have now added a new phase to the list: superionic ice.
This type of ice forms at extremely high temperatures and pressures, such as those deep inside planets like Neptune and Uranus.
Karva Chauth 2021: Planets that promote marital bliss | Astrology - Hindustan Times
When Mars is placed in certain positions in a birth chart, it leads to a blemish called 'Mangal Dosha'. Mars is a fiery planet with high energy; hence it is not considered conducive for emotional happiness. However, today, Mangal Dosha is a very common occurrence given the increase in population.
Craig Barry on Turner Sports' remarkable month: "The planets aligned."
October has often received a lot of discussion in conversations about the best sports month , and that was particularly true for Turner Sports this year. In addition to their longstanding coverage of MLB (on TBS) and NBA (on TNT) games, they also added NHL coverage this year (on TNT).
“The opportunity presented itself to say this is a really interesting opportunity in the sports world that we have the ability to create some access to, and we thought that was important,” Barry said.
Astronomer's Stunningly Simple Animations Reveal Solar System Physics
So a few days before their study's publication, O'Donoghue slapped an expanding black circle onto an image of Saturn and faded most of its rings away. The New York Times featured his animation with the news of the study.
Then, as he continued to roam the Internet while waiting for government work to resume, O'Donoghue realized that he couldn't find any videos comparing each planet's spin side by side. So he made one.
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