In the process of planet formation, something could go wrong. I wrote about it here. This…
Valerii Siergieiev
Contrary to the fears expressed in antiquity, the Sun is not at risk of sudden extinction,…
Why didn’t Jupiter become a star? Jupiter has no solid ground and is made up of…
How it all began? An endless cloud of hydrogen and helium molecules is ready to form…
An exoplanet whose surface is liquid lava can be called lava-ocean planets. They have a special…
Contrasts of Mercury Let’s start our exciting tour with Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun.…
The Sun accounts for 99% of the mass of our entire solar system. Only 0.000003% to…
The approximate radius of the solar system is 30 trillion kilometers. Mankind has discovered 316 minor…
The Milky Way is an unremarkable mid-range spiral galaxy. The universe contains at least 2 trillion…
At the center of the Milky Way, something unknown, dense, invisible through telescopes, and consisting most…
The Hubble Space Telescope emerged as the pioneering tool to undertake a rudimentary tally of the…
Distance information The Voyager spacecraft is moving away from the Sun at a speed of 17.3…
NGC 376 is a star cluster in the Tucana constellation. It was observed by Scottish astronomer…
Even if you are stationary, the Earth moves at 30 km/s, the Sun at 220 km/s.…
The most recent data available was from NASA’s Magellan mission in the early 1990s, which used…
The Milky Way began its existence as a small cluster of gas and dust and then…
As Hale-Bopp approached Earth for a month, its descriptions ignited interest in newspapers and the emerging…
It’s worth it, first of all, to know what to do with photographing the natural satellite…
Seismic events occur on the Moon, called lunar earthquakes or lunar seismic waves. These events are…
The solar system is located in the outer spiral arm of our galaxy – the arm…
Do comets come from Oort clouds? The Oort cloud is the source of all long-period comets.…
Solar flares are pieces of the Sun, some of which “fall” to Earth. What happens if,…
The earth consists mainly of the following chemical elements (as a percentage by mass): Oxygen (O):…
Over the last century, we’ve gotten used to having nine planets in our solar system: Mercury,…
Our planet will reach aphelion (the farthest point from the Sun) on July 6. At that…
Uranus: Uranus is the coldest planet in our solar system. Despite its closer proximity to the…
Veteran astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy of Arizona unveiled this spectacular photo of Jupiter on September 17, 2022.…
If the Sun is the size of a watermelon, Mars would be about the size of…
What has been discovered? Studies of the surface of Mars have shown numerous indications that water,…
Have you ever wondered why Mars is often referred to as the “Red Planet”? The answer…