Solar System

The Voyager spacecraft program started the worlds endeavor to explore farther regions of our local solar system. The program takes in hand the idea behind the Planetary Grand Tour. In which they would utilize the rare alignment of the planets in their favor, so that the craft would take less time and fuel, having the ability to visit Jupiter and Saturn. With the main mission, the study of both Saturn, and Jupiter, including the planets’ moons, rings, and atmospheric composition. Later, one of…

saltwater oceans underneath. The oceans remain liquid due to tidal heating. This replicates “the underground lakes in Antarctica that are being explored and contain life”(“Life In Our Solar System”). Which means it could probably sustain life in the future. Ganymede is the largest of the moons in the entire solar system. Which also has an icy surface with saltwater oceans, but is kept liquid by a liquid iron core instead of tidal heating. It also has a very thin atmosphere. The last of the four…

mass, it has 67 moons. All of its moons are denser than Jupiter because they are rocky like the terrestrial planets. Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system, both in mass and density. Like most of the gas giants, Saturn is made of hydrogen and helium. Saturn has 62 moons, it has one of the largest moons in the solar system, Titan. It’s is even bigger than Mercury. Uranus is the second smallest volume in the gas planets, but it’s still larger than earth. Uranus has 27 moons, most…

To me, astronomy is the study of the universe and everything in it. This includes the planets, moons, stars, comets, etc. The major difference found between Muggle astronomy and Wizarding astronomy is that the Muggle world has "laws" that explain what they see in the universe. The study of these laws of the universe in the Muggle world is called "physics". Although these laws do explain a vast majority of what the Muggles see on Earth and in the universe, it may not hold true in the Wizarding…

Super Giant Star: When I was a young star, younger than all of you, just about after was born. I was a small star, didn't have any idea of what was going on. I had a very surprisingly strong gravitational pull, pulling all sorts of gases. Having stronger gravity pulled more and more gas and dust to me. The inner layers of gas and dust start to warm from the pressure of the gas and dust above. Now the star's heat and light blows away the surrounding gas and dust, and then I could finally be seen…

One of the ancient culture from a solar system is about more then million years or even decades old. No one knows the walking delta culture because how old it is, and how far it is from our galaxy. It's more than at least more than a human life away. Its name is walking delta, one of the most rare scenes you can see, it looks like a ancient creature waking named the delta. They can choose to do anything once the soul is out of the body and mind(dead). One can choose when the right time…

Belt. Pluto is probably the “planet” we know the least about, at least before the New Horizons space probe passed it a few months back. First discovered in 1930 by an astronomer named Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto was considered the ninth planet in our Solar system for over 70 years. Then in 2003, Eris, a small planet larger than Pluto,…

development of new technology and the improvement of daily life. Still, NASA seeks to explore other regions of the universe that have yet to be discovered or understood. One such study is that of exoplanets, which are planetary bodies outside of our solar…

occur in 2019. Although the rocky planet appears larger in May, the spring transits are rarer; the next one won't happen until 2049. Searching for other worlds During Monday's 7.5-hour transit, scientists will use the giant New Solar Telescope at the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California to try to catch a glimpse of sodium in the planet's thin atmosphere. A planet's atmosphere extends slightly above its surface, so starlight can illuminate the atmosphere when the planet passes in front of…

experienced your whole home being destroyed right in front of your face? Have you ever seen hundreds of people die for you so you can save your own? I’m Alexander Savage, I’m from the Chione (Key-own-nee) colony on the ice planet in the Apollo Solar System. You might think an ice planet would be harsh to live in, but it was home to us. My homeland is no longer intact because of the company that destroyed it. The ice planet was rich with a mineral that is called “Life Crystal” which is found…