Solar System
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Solar Storms Can Cause Severe Damage on Earth
The Sun gives warmth, light, life. But within its boiling cauldron storms rage, and sometimes these storms expel massive plasma and radiation storms at Earth. These solar storms from space can play havoc with our lives.By January 24, 2012
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Inside the Milky Way: Where is Earth's position?
Where are we? That’s a question many people today can quickly answer by using a GPS device. But where is the Earth? More precisely, where in the Milky Way galaxy is the Earth and our Solar System? And, what is in the Milky Way? Read...By November 1, 2011
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Other Moons Of Our Solar System: Do They Too Have Phases?
If you watch our moon over the course of a month you will see it grow from a sliver of a crescent to a blazing spotlight in the night—the full moon. But is this elegant property of phases exclusive to our moon, or do other moons in the solar system...By November 1, 2011
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Size of Solar System vs. Size of Our Galaxy
Size is relative. How big is big? Well, if you have to travel from New York to Hong Kong that’s a pretty long trip, but it pales in comparison if you had to travel across the Solar System. The Solar System is big, but compared to size of the...By November 1, 2011
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A Gallery of Hauntingly Beautiful Deep Space Images
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us spectacular images of deep space objects that not only have expanded our knowledge of the Universe but shown us its beauty. Here are a few of the most spectacular deep space images HST has given us.By October 23, 2011
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Saturn's Moon Enceladus Grabs the Attention of Alien Life Hunters
The possible presence of water under the surface of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons, has brought the satellite to the attention of exobiologists, a group of scientists dedicated to exploring the possibility of life throughout the Solar System and...By October 18, 2011
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Are You Knowledgeable About Neptune?
How knowledgeable you are about Neptune, now our eighth and last planet since Pluto was demoted? Take the challenge and test how well you know your facts!By October 8, 2011
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Our Family of Planets and Moons - The Solar System Image Gallery
To the ancients, planets were merely wandering points of light against a backdrop of fixed stars. The only moon they knew was that of our own Earth. With modern technology, we have seen each of these wanderers up close in all their grandeur and beauty...By September 28, 2011
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A Guide to the Solar System
Planets and planetoids, asteroids called Trojans and Centaurs, dwarf planets and plutoids, meteors, comets, extra terrestrial volcanoes and volcanoes made of ice! Moonscapes beautifully pockmarked with craters and valleys, and course, our endlessly...By September 12, 2011
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Small Bodies in the Solar System Explained
The rarefied field of the classification of astronomical bodies made international headlines in 2006, when Pluto was demoted from its position as one of the planets. Less well publicized was the simultaneous creation of an entirely new group of objects...By September 7, 2011