Much like Jupiter, and all the other gas giants, Saturn’s system of satellites is extensive as it is impressive. In addition to the larger moons that are believed to have formed from a massive debris field that once orbited it, it also has countless smaller satellites that were captured b...
Earth has only one natural satellite, which we generally refer to as ‘the moon’. Here’s a fun fact: All naturalsatellites(moons) of other planets have been given proper names, but ournatural satellite is simply called the moon. The moon, just like any other natural satellite, revolves ...
You can also see the moons of Jupiter (Galilean satellites) -- Io, Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. The moons orbit Jupiter in changing positions each night, and they are interesting to watch over the course of many days. In a large telescope (8- to 10-inch or 20- to 25-cm reflector)...
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Mission specialist astronauts work with pilots to maintain spacecraft and equipment, conduct experiments and launch satellites. Mission specialists may be engineers, scientists or physicians. NASA has also introduced mission specialist educator astronauts. Educator astronauts go through the same training as ...
but its status as a planet was never controversial until other objects reminiscent of Pluto but in no danger of themselves being called planets began to accumulate in the astronomy world. It is smaller than the Moon, yet it has five satellites of its own. The largest, Charon, is almost hal...
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"Such a practice was useful for many years, because astronomers were not able to make distance measurements in the solar system as precisely as they could measure angles." The sun is at the heart of the solar system. All of the bodies in the solar system — planets, asteroids, comets, ...
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