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Solar System’s True Center Isn’t the Sun, Animation Shows
It’s commonly known that the Sun is the center of our solar system, with all the planets orbiting around it. However, this ...
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A scientist's mesmerizing animation shows how our entire solar system orbits an unseen center - and it's not the sun
In the above animation, the Sun, Jupiter and Saturn are shown orbiting the barycentre of our solar system. The barycentre is the centre of mass of two or more orbiting bodies and is the point in ...
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Asteroid pieces brought to Earth help reveal how our solar system's planets and moons grew
We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...
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A stunning animation by a planetary scientist shows how huge our solar system is - and why that makes it so hard to depict
Most models of the solar system aren't completely accurate, and there's a good reason for that. It's not laziness or scientific misunderstanding - an accurate, to-scale portrayal of the solar ...
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Animation of Pluto's surface
New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says, "Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system." As the craft ...
NASA’s CODEX Ready To Unlock Solar Wind Mysteries From the ISS
NASA’s Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is set to launch to the International Space Station to explore new details about ...
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A scientist's mesmerizing animation shows how our entire solar system orbits an unseen center — and it's not the sun
In our solar system, that point rarely lines up with the center of the sun. To demonstrate this, O'Donoghue created the animation below, which shows how the sun, Saturn, and Jupiter play tug-of ...