Jupiter

According to the Nice theory, The Kuiper belt lies out past the orbit of Pluto. Instead of asteroids, The Kuiper belt has millions of icy comets that circle the Sun very fast, and because of that fast motion, they were flung outward by encounters with the giant planets. Scientist believe that the comet Pluto is a part of the Kuiper belt. The Oort cloud is not really a cloud, but a mass of a over a trillion comets that circle the Sun at a great distance. In fact, the Oort cloud extends over…

The Big Bang Christians and Muslims believe that God created the earth in 7 days. The 2nd school of thought in Buddhism states “there is a God that created everything”. Then there are Buddhist who believe that the world has always been here and the idea that things must have a beginning originates from ones imagination. What if The Big Bang was God’s way of creating the universe? “The Big Bang theory is an explosion of all space that took place roughly 13.7 Billion years ago and that marks the…

Background At night, people always raise head and look at stars. We may all have asked similar questions: are there any planets we can live other than earth? For decades, scientists and astronomers are devoted to these fascinating questions and have done lots of researches. Since the shining stars we can see with our naked eyes on earth are almost fixed stars like our sun, it’s absolutely impossible for life to exist there. Thus in order to search for second earth, the first thing to do is…

The Race Through Space The Race Through Space is the newest and spectacular roller coaster in Pennsylvania that goes at a speed of 0-50 miles per hour in three seconds. This roller coaster takes you through all eight planets going at an average speed of sixty miles per hour. Race Through Space starts by shooting you up a whopping 210-foot hill reaching the Sun at instantaneous speed before adventuring through the planets. These planets are created to appear like the actual planet.…

Venus, our closest neighbor, is 0.72 AU from the sun, while Mars is 1.52 AU from the sun. Neptune, the most distant planet, is 30 AU from the sun (i.e., 44.8 billion km or 27.9 billion miles). The Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977, reached Jupiter just two years later, but did not reach Neptune until 1989. The nearest stars, the triplet Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B and Proxima Centauri, are roughly 1000 times more distant, approximately 40.7 trillion km (25.3 trillion mi). Such huge…

Previously, Pluto was classified as a planet before being demoted to a dwarf planet. Several months later, NASA has announced another flyby of planet Jupiter by NASA’s Juno spacecraft expected to take place on the 4th of July this year. The spacecraft is expected to enter Jupiter’s orbit and circle the planet from a distance of about 5,000 kilometers. This marks another important milestone in astronomy…

Neptune Neptune is very complex and there are many different aspects about Neptune's History. Neptune may be dark and lifeless, but the mystery is what give Neptune its features. Neptune also was named after the roman god of the sea. Many think Neptune is small when looking at it from a radar, but when investigating Neptune, the planet could hold about 64 Earths if were hollow. Theories about how Neptune was created still is left to be investigated. When and How Neptune was Discovered The…

A comet is contained within the solar system and orbits the sun, when it is close enough to the sun, something that looks like a tail is shown, and it seems diffused. A meteor, is a meteoroid that is burnt up, whilst passing through Earth’s atmosphere. A meteorite is a meteor, that doesn’t burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, but collides with the Earth’s surface. An Asteroid, is made of rocks and metals and is contained in the solar system as well. It is very similar to a comet is extremely similar…

be the same plane of view as the star that we are looking at, because if we aren’t then we would never see the planet blocking the light from the star. Another downfall to the transit method is that is it more favorable to bigger planets like hot Jupiters, this is because it would a lot easier to see bigger planets blocking light than…

Olaus first recognized the time for the light to reach Jupiter’s moons was roughly about seven minutes when the Earth was orbiting and getting closer to Jupiter. He then came up with an estimate of 140,000 miles/ per second which was a pretty good hypothesis because of the way Olaus concluded and figured out the speed of light by studying the eclipse time of certain moons in Jupiter’s gravitational pull.…