NASA’s fifth Mars rover, Perseverance, landed on Mars in 2021! Let’s keep learning with our Top 10 Facts about Space and Top 10 Facts about the Solar System. Plus you can learn more about what’s in our Solar System with our Top 10 Facts on the Sun and the Moon; the planets ...
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Can stars be cold? This really depends on your definition of the word star. If we takeNASA’s definition of a star; “a sphere of gas held together by its own gravity”, then none of the stars that we look at in our night sky are actually cold, and they couldn’t be. They’re...
1. Neutron stars can spin at a rate of 600 rotations per second Fun facts about space: The spinning rate of neutron stars.Credit: Flickr / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Neutron starsare one of the possible evolutionary end-points of high mass stars. They're born in a core-collapse sup...
Free-Floating Planets May Outnumber The Stars Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Wikimedia Commons Public domain In 2011, astronomers discovered numerous Jupiter-sized planets free-floating apart from any star. The team hypothesized that the rogue planets were ejected from distant developing planetary systems,...
Free-Floating Planets May Outnumber The Stars Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Wikimedia Commons Public domain In 2011, astronomers discovered numerousJupiter-sized planetsfree-floating apart from any star. The team hypothesized that the rogue planets were ejected from distant developing planetary systems, and...
Alpha Centauri is the closest star to Earth other than the sun, but Alpha Centauri A and B aren't number two and three.Read about the other starsthat are closest to the solar system. You can look up Proxima Centauri b and the other exoplanets in that star system inNASA's exoplanet ca...
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To learn more about how the sun and other stars work, after early observations using rockets, scientists began studying the sun from Earth orbit. NASA launched a series of eight orbiting observatories known as the Orbiting Solar Observatory between 1962 and 1971. Seven of them were successful, ...
The Antennae Galaxies – apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150212.html The Antennae is a pair of spiral galaxies that are interacting and mingling their stars. They began their galactic dance over a few hundred million years ago and are currently in a period where their colliding gas clouds are bursting ...