The Solar System: Home Sweet Home
In the winter of 1504, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus watched as the planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn grouped close together in […]
In the winter of 1504, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus watched as the planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn grouped close together in […]
Yet many remained, and are still with us today: a small planet (and maybe more than one), icy planetesimals that
The solar system’s outer realm contains four giant planets. The largest is Jupiter, at about 11 times Earth’s diameter. Despite
The structures of the terrestrial planets are similar. Each planet has a layered structure that developed through a process called
That is a tricky question, which astronomers didn’t answer correctly until fairly recently. For a while, they thought the biggest
Many cultures have seen two humans in this star pattern, which consists of two roughly parallel lines of stars capped
Aldebaran outshines all the other stars that outline the bull’s face. But Aldebaran isn’t a member of the Hyades cluster
The constellation originated in Sumeria, then was picked up by the Greeks. But they appear to have missed something in