Tag - Solar System
The solar system is something that still remains a mystery for us. Our little minds are still busy exploring the mere origin of this vast universe. Yet, when a piece of this huge jigsaw falls in place, something new is implored, further adding to the...
The solar system has been the subject of numerous studies till date. An interesting discovery made by Voyager space crafts found that the solar system is dented. This discovery has been made from the 'edge' of the solar system. The edge of the...
The 400 light-years away open cluster in the constellation of Taurus and among the nearest to the Earth -- Pleiades -- seems to be ever happening, now that small, rocky planets may be in the making in the cluster!
It is all happening around one...
Whenever we think about the planet we are inhibiting, a large massive body roaming around the sun comes to amaze us. However, Astrophysics are out to explore similar solar systems outside our solar system.
Now, scientists have detected a few...
Astronomers and Space scientists who have contributed greatly in the exploration of 28 new planets encircling different stars (just like Sun) have opined that our Solar system is not one of its kinds at all; and it is not distinctive too. They have...
Yet another new discovery of a planet has been made after its 14 'perhaps' smaller siblings are spotted beyond our solar system. Unlike the other gas giants of the size of the Jupiter, this new very hot world is found to be bigger than...
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New planet, Jupiter-sized planet, 1, 500 light-years, Monoceros constellation, Corot-exo-1b, Corot mission, Jupiter, Solar System, Earth-like planet, Technology
Don't get deceived by their huge size like that of Jupiter. The gravititional strength of all the 14 known gas giant planets outside our solar system is surprisingly found to be much closer to that of Earth! -- and not as intense as that of...
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Jupiter-sized planet, Earth-like gravity, Dr John Southworth, Dr Peter Wheatley, Giles Sams, University of Warwick, HD 209458, gas giants, solar system, gravitational strength, gas giant planet, Technology
Water is considered the key ingredient for the existence of life forms. Astronomers looking for life on the other planets in the solar system and elsewhere in the universe always begin by checking for the availability of water. The presence of water...
According to researchers Meteorites that strike Earth contain important information about the evolution of the solar system.
More than 31,000 meteorites have been found on our planet with weights ranging from one gram to 60 metric...
Recent studies have confirmed that the continuous bombardment of billions of tiny particles from the Sun can affect the spin of an asteroid.
The effect is not that great if you check it out on annual basis but once you see that the process has...
Asteroids and Comets are the biggest weapons of mass destruction that can never be built by humans. An asteroid just a couple of miles in diameter can almost completely destroy the entire human population of the world.
Let's go step by step in...
In a major discovery in astronomy researchers have discovered an asteroid belt beyond the solar system.
New measurements have pinpointed that a star named Zeta Leporis is surrounded by an asteroid belt that lies about the same distance from the...
There's something revitalizing about the start of another year. Sure, we all become a year older but that's something we all would like to celebrate. However, the days are shorter now and it's getting colder than you'd like but we all would like to...
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Year 2006, NASA, ISS, Moon, Pluto, Comet, Solar system, Mars, Discovery, Space Launch, Space craft, Satellites, Sun, Technology
The bodies of our Solar System have orbited continuously around the Sun since their formation, but they have not always been there, and conditions will not always be the same as they are today. The Story of the Solar System explains how our Solar...
The new Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will soon be getting the Observatory Control System software, as its design study has just been completed by the Cambridge-based scientific software consultancy Observatory Sciences.
With the help of...
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