Aries, the Ram
Aries is famous not because of its brilliance, though, but because of its location: It is one of the 12 […]
Aries is famous not because of its brilliance, though, but because of its location: It is one of the 12 […]
In the winter of 1504, astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus watched as the planets Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn grouped close together in
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Yet many remained, and are still with us today: a small planet (and maybe more than one), icy planetesimals that
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The solar system’s outer realm contains four giant planets. The largest is Jupiter, at about 11 times Earth’s diameter. Despite
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The structures of the terrestrial planets are similar. Each planet has a layered structure that developed through a process called
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That is a tricky question, which astronomers didn’t answer correctly until fairly recently. For a while, they thought the biggest
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Many cultures have seen two humans in this star pattern, which consists of two roughly parallel lines of stars capped
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Aldebaran outshines all the other stars that outline the bull’s face. But Aldebaran isn’t a member of the Hyades cluster