UsingNASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. This confirms the suspected details about the orbit of its outermost and least understood planet, TRAPPIST-1h. TRAPPIST-1 is only eight percent the...
The trio used the ratios of the moons' orbits, combined with an animation of Jupiter and its moons, to generate a rhythmic beat that is based on each moon's resonance, before slowly speeding it up from 30,000 to 250 million times the actual orbital speed (seen at the top of this page...
So, the subject then is planetary orbits or really planetary motion, more generally. And it comes from basic laws of motion that Newton provided us. And how then does that go? So as in the animation, say we have the sun in space, and we have the Earth say some other location. And...
Solar system - Formation, Planets, Orbits: The current approach to the origin of the solar system treats it as part of the general process of star formation. As observational information has steadily increased, the field of plausible models for this proc