White dwarf

Saturn By: Natalie James Saturn is one of the farthest planets from the sun, being the sixth. After being first spotted in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, Saturn was named after the Roman god of wealth and agriculture, Saturnus. The most common nickname for this gas giant is “The Ringed Planet”, for the large rings surrounding it that Saturn is famed for. Originally the Italian astronomer, Galileo Galilei, thought that Saturn was triple bodied, but in 1658 Dutch astronomer, Christiaan Huygens, using a…

Uranus, often being referred as an ice giant was created 4.5 billion years ago, yet we have only had one mission to this marvelous planet that has many interesting details. The third largest planet, Uranus has many moons and cold temperatures with its average temperature being -216 degrees Celsius. The planet has a much longer orbit than the earth. Uranus also has a large figure and as stated earlier, it is the 3rd largest planet. There has only been one spacecraft to Uranus, which was Voyager 2…

The universe is so big and mysterious that you never know what it’s going to throw at you. When you think you got everything figured out, you encounter a bump on the road. This happens because the universe is so complex and infinite, that we are barely begging to understand it. We are still a very long way into fully understand the universe. Pluto originally discovered in 1930, and later given official planet status by the IAU has been an ongoing debate for decades (Freedman). There are those…

You may call it the Big Bang Theory or even the Big Splash, but the Theia Impact is the biggest contribution to our planet and is timeless to us humans. Although the impact happened 4.5 billion years ago, and 30 to 50 million years after the solar system began to form, a mars sized rock created a modern tool used everyday by everybody. Earth’s moon is unique in matter and how it became apart of our planet's orbit. Moons are captured by their planets by their rings and pull of the orbit of the…

out of Neptune's orbit. Kuiper Belt also has another name, that is Edgeworth. The Edgeworth, or the Kuiper Belt, is home to three officially recognized dwarf planet we know today. Those three planets are Pluto, Haumea, and Makemake. Although, Pluto is the most common, it really shows the possibilities this Belt could contain other undiscovered dwarfs. Besides that, the Kuiper Belt mostly contains small solar system bodies made mostly of ice. These ices are mostly frozen gases like methane,…

There's been an ongoing debate on the idea and topic about Pluto's classification as a planet. In 1930, Pluto was discovered 400 billion miles away from the sun by Clyde Tombaugh. "Clyde Tombaugh was an American astronomer who worked for the Lowell observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona" (Wikipedia). When Pluto was discovered it was classified as a planet, it became the 9th planet in the solar system. It wasn't much longer before its classification was in questioned, as a result people started saying…

Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and the aforementioned Pluto, as the most recently discovered Solar System Dwarf Planet. To understand the definition of a Dwarf Planet, one must understand the definition of a regular planet. In a 2006 assembly that has gained notoriety for “killing” the planetary status of Pluto, the International Astronomical Union, or IAU, resolved definitions for both planets and dwarf planet. They outlined four criteria that determine planetary status for celestial bodies. The…

The Hunt for Planet X Ever since the proposition of a ninth planet within our solar system by Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo in 2014 (Hunt 1) the hunt has been on for the elusive object. The use of extreme Kuiper Belt objects (eKBOs) which are objects believed to not be significantly influenced by Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune, contributed to the idea of another object in the solar system influencing them (Malhotra 1). The study of the eKBOs orbit around our sun lead to the…

Web Site one: The name of the site is: Astronomy for Kids. The URL for the site is: http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm. The user of this site would be: the students. On this site the student will be able to find information about the sun or any of the planets in our solar system. Another aspect of the site is that students can learn about the different moons of the planets. This site also contains interesting information about Saturn’s rings. Finally, the students will be able to…

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…