The University of Colorado, Boulder, has unveiled a 1:10 billion scale-model solar system with an interactive sound experience.
Have you ever longed to experience a planetary voyage through the solar system? Or to travel from the Sun to Jupiter? The University of Colorado, Boulder (CU Boulder) has just unveiled a 1:10 billion scale-model solar system that allows you to do just that.
Study: Frequency of Asteroid Impacts in Inner Solar System Constant over Past 600 Million Years |
Using a novel crater detection algorithm, which automatically counts the visible impact craters from a high-resolution image, a team of planetary researchers from the United States, Australia, Côte d’Ivoire and France has analyzed the formation of 521 large impact craters on Mars.
Average Australian Solar System Size Increased to 9.5kW in December
Last year we published an article asking whether 8-10kW solar PV systems will become the new solar “sweet spot” for Aussie homeowners. We’re not quite there yet, but if the latest data is anything to go by, we are certainly heading in that direction.
In December 2021, the average size of a small-scale (<100kW) solar system installed on Australian rooftops (residential and commercial combined) increased to 9.5kW, up from 8.86kW in December 2020.
Terrestrial Planet Formation From Lost Inner Solar System Material - Astrobiology
Two fundamentally different processes of rocky planet formation exist, but it is unclear which one built the terrestrial planets of the solar system.
Either they formed by collisions among planetary embryos from the inner solar system, or by accreting sunward-drifting millimeter-sized 'pebbles' from the outer solar system.
Leigh Fletcher interview: Why we urgently need a mission to Neptune | New Scientist
BEFORE heading into the depths of interstellar space, the Voyager 2 probe flew by the giant icy worlds on the edge of our solar system , giving us our first ever close-up of Uranus in 1986 and Neptune in 1989.
Voyager 2 now flies through the empty space between the stars, more than 19 billion kilometres away from Earth. The glimpse it gave us of Uranus and Neptune is still the closest we have ever got to these ice giants.
EarthSky | New comet C/2021 O3 might brighten in May 2022
A comet discovered last July is approaching the inner solar system and might reach binocular visibility (at least) by late April and early May 2022. It’s designated C/2021 O3 and appears to be “new” to the inner solar system, a first-time visitor.
Basically, that means it might have just enough escape velocity, after it sweeps near our sun this April, to break the bonds of our sun’s gravity.
Interstellar Spaceships Might Need to Prepare for Dark Matter
The Milky Way is massive, but far more weighty is the volume of dark matter purported to pervade our home galaxy.
While the study still requires peer review, it also says the Pioneer and New Horizons spacecraft were already affected, and so will planetary astronomy and astrophysics.
Outer Wilds: How to Get the "Harmonic Convergence" Achievement
On each of the five planets of the Outer Wilds solar system is a member of Outer Wilds Ventures. They can be found on their respective planets playing an instrument, which can be heard anywhere in the solar system with the Signalscope.
The Signalscope is used to locate different frequencies around the solar system for navigational purposes, like following quantum fluctuations to find the Outer Wild s' Quantum Moon .
Space may look empty, but something is always going on | Opinion | pentictonherald.ca
This void in space is about 1,000 light years wide. A light year is the distance light travels in a year: just under 10,000,000,000,000 kilometres), and we are close to the middle.
Its existence is nothing to do with us. We just happen to be moving through it. Blowing this bubble started around 14 million years ago. It is still growing.
Scientists set stopwatch on when the Sun will die and destroy the solar system - World News -
In fact experts at BGR believe it has got about five billion years left, which is longer than the Earth is old.
The burning bright star which literally keeps the solar system together won't quite be going out with a bang just yet though.
This is a problem because it unbalances the outward forces created by fusion and gravitational pull inwards.
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