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Take a High Resolution Tour of Our Solar System
Our solar system is, in many ways, all that we know. It contains 8 planets, 5 dwarf planets, 166 moons, and thousands upon thousands of comets. Notably, these are just the objects that we've discovered...
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How Long Would it Take to Die On Each Planet In Our Solar System?
Fit For Life? In the below video, Neil deGrasse Tyson outlines exactly how long it would take you to meet your (terribly unfortunate) demise on the other planets in our solar system if you had no space...
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Watch: 5 "Impossible" Things That Can Happen On Other Planets
Just because it's impossible on Earth doesn't mean it's impossible everywhere else in the universe. The post Watch: 5 "Impossible" Things That Can Happen On Other Planets appeared first on Futurism.
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Watch: Do Any Stars NOT Have Planets?
Is it possible that any stars don't have planets, or are they just an expected feature of stellar formation? The post Watch: Do Any Stars NOT Have Planets? appeared first on Futurism.
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NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets
An Ocean of Worlds Scientists working with telescopes at the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced a remarkable new discovery: An entire system of Earth-sized planets. If that's not enough,...
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Astronomers Just Discovered Three Planets in an Entirely New Way
We have lots of ways to detect planets orbiting stars other than our Sun. Some planets are close enough that we can see them just by looking at the night sky, while others are only detectable using...
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These Lonely Planets Drift Through Space Without Orbiting Stars
I Walk a Lonely Road Polish astronomers just discovered two new planets in our galaxy. That’s cool news on its own, but these planets are different from most. Unlike almost all known planets, New...
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Beautiful New Images Show Clouds of Dust Forming Into Planets
Rings of Fire If you're in the market for a new desktop wallpaper, we have 20 suggestions. A protoplanetary disk is the ring of dust and gas that surrounds a young star. As time passes, the material in...
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Mercury Is Every Planet in the Solar System's Closest Neighbor
Well, Actually You probably learned in school — or space camp — that Venus is Earth's closest planetary neighbor. Ready to get your mind blown? A new model of the planets' orbit shuffles things around,...
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Scientists Call for Making Pluto a Planet Again
Pluto may be reinstated to its position as a planet — and other celestial bodies may join it. A new study from the Florida Space Institute at the University of Central Florida surveyed centuries of...
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Astrobiologists Suggest the Earth Itself May Be an Intelligent Entity
A group of researchers have posed a fascinating — and downright mind bending — thought experiment: If a planet like Earth can be "alive," can it also have a mind of its own? The team published a paper...
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Voracious Jupiter Ate a Bunch of Baby Planets, Scientists Say
Me Hongy! Jupiter may be our solar system's hungriest hippo — as evidenced by new data from NASA's Juno probe that found the remains of a ton of smaller planets lurking beneath's the gas giant's opaque...
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Astronomers Puzzled by "Marshmallow" Planet With Unusually Low Density
Food For Thought Astronomers at the Kitt Peak National Observatory have spotted a peculiar gas giant exoplanet some 580 light-years away with the density of a marshmallow. And as it turns out, it may...
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Five Planets Are Aligning in the Sky Right Now
Full House The planets are aligning. Literally. Right now. And if you happen to glance at roughly where the Sun has just set on the horizon over the next few nights, you should be able to witness five...
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Scientists Spot Tragic Planet Being Eaten by a Dying Star
Tastes Like Chicken Until recently, scientists had never spotted a star in the act of consuming a planet — and now that it's been captured, we likely have a glimpse of Earth's future. Astronomers at...
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The Webb Space Telescope Just Zoomed in Super Close on an Alien Planet
Eye Spy The James Webb Space Telescope just got a very close look at TRAPPIST-1 c, a rocky exoplanet located roughly 40 light-years away in the TRAPPIST-1 star system. But before you get your hopes up,...
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James Webb Spots Numerous Pairs of Planets, Hanging Out With No Stars
Jumbo Discovery NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted hundreds of lonely "planets" that are seemingly floating through empty space without being tethered to any star in particular. But many of...
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Mercury Has Wrinkles Because It’s Shrinking, Scientists Say
Scientists have long suspected that Mercury is actively shrinking over billions of years — but new research suggests that that process may still be going on, leaving cracked-up wrinkles behind. In an...
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Astronomers Say Two Giant Ice Planets Collided, Leaving Donut-Shaped Wreckage
Crash Course Two massive, icy worlds collided in a distant star system, obliterating each other and forming a red hot, donut-shaped cloud. And, to the delight of astronomers, they caught a glimpse of...
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High Percentage of Stars Have Eaten a Planet, Research Finds
Deadly Diet New research has shown that about one in 12 stars have devoured a planet, suggesting that stable planetary systems like our own are less common throughout the cosmos than once believed. As...
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