Dwarf

very moment, NASA’S Dawn Spacecraft is closing in on the dwarf planet Ceres, which meeks out its lonely existence out in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, that ring slowly spinning beyond the inner planets’ orbits, separating us from the gas giants, the oort cloud, and that vast emptiness beyond. However, Dawn’s approach of Ceres has already been so Chock Full of odd surprises that astronomers are unsure what to make of the dwarf planet. For starters, NASA aired a video last Thursday…

When a star is born it can take one of two paths. It can either take the path of a high mass star or the path of a low mass star. A high mass star will be between 10-50 solar mass and a low mass star will be between .8-10 solar masses. One solar mass is equal to M⊙ = (1.989±0.004) x 1030 kg, which is A LOT. Either path it takes, the one of a high mass or low mass star it will live about 90% of it’s lifetime in its main sequence. Once achieving nuclear fusion the star slowly contracts over…

“KwaZulu Dwarf Chameleon” is the official common name for this chameleon, where the name can be internationally recognised. Its original name was the “black-headed dwarf chameleon”, however it is unsuitable due to it lacking the feature of a black head. The reason why it was named this in the first place, is because a museum had the specimen that acquired a black head due to preservation processes. Local names given to this chameleon include Durban dwarf chameleon, unwabu (isiZulu),…

after Roman Gods of the Underwold. Pluto was said to be the smallest Planet in the solar system and the ninth Planet from the sun, little after Pluto was recategorized From a planet to a Dwarf Planet, but still smaller than other Dwarf Planets meaning that It can not clear any objects out of its path. Dwarf Planet Pluto was discovered to have five moons Hydra, Kerberos, Nix, Styx, and Charon the largest moon.…

Pluto is widely known as the tiniest planet in the solar system. Pluto is also the ninth planet closest to the sun. Pluto is now referred to as a ‘dwarf planet’ and is the smallest than any other the other planets. Though smaller than the popular planets in the solar system, Pluto is the largest dwarf planet. Some time ago, Pluto was discharged and lost its’ title to be declared a planet thanks to scientists and geographers. It is a planet that has been long overdue some attention apart from…

the state of equilibrium. Once it’s there it’s is considered a pre-main sequence star, but once it starts to acquire energy from nuclear reactions the protostar is now a main sequence star. If they never reach nuclear fusion, then they become brown dwarfs, stars that never…

Solar System Explanation The parts of the solar system are the Sun, Planets, the Kuiper Belt(meteors), the Main Belt(asteroids), comets, dwarf planets, and moons. The sun is located in the center of the universe and all of the other objects orbit around it. The sun only rotates about every 25-36 Earth days. The sun is the closest star and a heat source for almost all the planets. All of the planets orbit around the sun but all at different paces. For example, It takes Earth 365 days to orbit…

Stellar Nebula : This is a cloud full of superheated gases. They range in size from millions of miles across to hundreds of light years across. This Nebula appears larger but is barely visible in the sky. Some Nebulas can be seen with a naked eye, this one can not because it does not glow as bright as others. This star isn’t as bright as others because it is larger.…

the University of Colorado at Boulder team within the NASA Astrobiology institute, has authority to define the planet and his book the extremely high credibility. In this powerful resource, we can find some really interesting facts of the dwarf planet: The dwarf planets are usually less massive than planets, with an irregular orbit around the star. This is exactly what the article means in its third part, which means that the article is extremely precise in this part of crucial research. I…

The Little Planet that Couldn’t, Pluto’s fall from the Big 9. Pluto. The last of the nine large objects that orbits the sun was removed from the list of planets. Pluto was removed from the planet list and was classified as a dwarf plant. This not only changed countless textbooks across the globe, it has removed a little piece from the hearts of all that learned and loved the last little guy in line; far, far across the solar system. “Smaller than the Earth’s moon, Pluto was discovered in 1930…