Meteors are constantly entering and burning up in Earth’s atmosphere, providing stargazers with some of the most awe-inspiring celestial events of the year. There are currently more than 900 known annual meteor showers, of which […]
The image above shows an oblique view of the Norgay and Hillary mountain ranges, and an extensive ice field on Pluto, as photographed by the New Horizons mission. To many people, it would seem that […]
The image above shows rock formations within the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. It was from deep within the rock formations shown here that scientists extracted a 518-metre-long core sample that proved the correlation […]
The image above shows the interior structure of Europa, a major moon of the planet Jupiter, but the smallest of its four Galilean moons. The band of blue in the picture depicts a 100 km-thick […]
The dwarf planet designated 136199 Eris is named after the Greek goddess of strife, while its satellite, designated Dysnomia, is named after the goddess of lawlessness, who incidentally was Eris’ daughter. Eris is the most […]
Phobos is the larger and nearest of Mars’ two natural satellites, the other being Deimos. Both moons were discovered a few days apart in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall from the U.S. Naval Observatory […]
The image above shows the dwarf planet 136472 Makemake, which with a diameter roughly 60% that of Pluto is possibly the biggest object in the “classical population” of the Kuiper belt. Upon its discovery by […]
The dwarf planet designated 136108 Haumea and its two satellites were discovered by Mike Brown et al. (Caltech) at Palomar Observatory in 2004. Haumea is the largest member of its collisional family, a group of […]
The image above shows a near true color picture of the dwarf planet designated 134340 Pluto, the first object to be discovered in the Kuiper Belt after Clyde Tombaugh identified it in 1930. Pluto is […]
The image above includes a light-curve derived 3D model of the C-type asteroid designated 10 Hygiea, the fourth largest asteroid in the solar system by both volume and mass, the latter of which is estimated […]
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