Last week, NASA announced that it passed 5,000 planets confirmed to exist outside our humble little solar system.
Thanks to current and future space telescopes, the number of these so-called "exoplanets" is climbing fast, though it may take just a wee bit longer to identify all the estimated hundreds of billions of planets that are orbiting stars just here in our Milky Way — itself an average-sized ...
Looking Up: These three planets will appear close to the sun
As we ride the Earth, we share the great plane of the solar system, with the paths of fellow planets from Mercury to Neptune all more or less keeping concentric, something like grooves on a music record. At times the other planets bunch up tight as seen from here, in angles close to the Sun.
'God's Planets' - Santa Barbara News-Press
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April Astronomy: The Month Brings Ramadan, a Meteor Shower, and a Gathering of Planets in the ...
April mornings feature a spread of four planets in the southeast to east all month, including a gathering of Venus , Mars and Saturn in the first week, and a brilliant, close pairing of Venus and Jupiter at month's end.
A meteor shower peaks in predawn on April 22 and 23. The moon sweeps past four planets on four mornings, April 24-27, as Venus closes in on Jupiter, leading up to their spectacular conjunction of April 30 and May 1.
Dust cloud the size of a star formed by massive asteroids colliding | Space
Data from a retired NASA space telescope revealed the disaster scene left behind by a cosmic collision.
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observations of a debris cloud's size suggests that the dust was formed when two bodies the size of dwarf planets smashed together a few hundred light-years away from us.
Helium from Earth's core hints at planet's formation | Popular Science
A rare form of helium may have flooded Earth's core during the planet's formation in the hot, early stage of our solar system, according to a study published this week. Measuring that helium and other gasses trapped deep in Earth could give vital clues as to how it and other planets formed.
The precise way Earth formed is still an "outstanding question," says Zachary Sharp , a geochemist at the University of New Mexico and an author of the study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems .
When worlds collide: Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system -- ...
Brandon Johnson studies the latter, using information about impacts to understand the history and the composition of planets, moons, asteroids and meteorites throughout the solar system.
Collecting clues about collisions helps Johnson reconstruct the environment in which the collisions took place, offering deep insights into how and when bodies formed. His research is helping humans explore the planetary bodies in the solar system with only physics, math and a computer.
What Planets Are Retrograde April 2022? Here's The Deal
Ah, the dreaded retrograde. I bet the mere mention of the word has got you rethinking your entire belief in astrology, right? As if forgetting everything you thought you knew about the zodiac would suddenly make the concept of a "retrograde" seem ridiculous?
Everyone knows Mercury retrograde is a drag, but is there more to the experience of a retrograde than meets the eye? Absolutely. After all, a planetary retrograde causes the planet in question to begin rolling backward in its typical trip across the zodiac calendar.
Mercury has magnetic storms -- ScienceDaily
An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth.
The research by scientists in the United States, Canada and China includes work by Hui Zhang, a space physics professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute.
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