Usually when asked what planet is closest to Earth, most will answer Venus; however, this may not be accurate. Mercury, Venus and Earth come first; Mars follows; then Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are seen setting and rising after the Sun. These inferior planets set and rise after him. Mercury Mercury, the closest and smallest…
Of course, viewing beautiful views from space can give us a sense of scale; but they also help us gain greater insight into our planet – particularly images depicting Earth. Images captured from space station cameras or telescopes pointed towards Jupiter are truly spectacular. Space Station The International Space Station is a unique scientific laboratory…
Star Citizen is an ambitious space sandbox that provides endless gameplay opportunities. No matter your preferred genre of gameplay – be it combat or cargo running – Star Citizen offers something suitable to everyone’s taste. Planets Star Citizen is an ambitious MMO sandbox game featuring an online, persistent universe sandbox. Players will have control of…
Our solar system is a collection of planets and other space material orbiting a star, the Sun. The Sun is the centre of the system, and planetary objects in the order Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto form its outer rim. The four inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are…
The Solar System was formed 4.6 billion years ago by the gravitational collapse of an interstellar molecular cloud. It contains the Sun and its eight planets and their moons, plus a belt of icy dwarf planets and many asteroids. At the outer edge of our solar system, beyond the Kuiper belt, is the Oort cloud,…
The solar system consists of the Sun and the planets, natural satellites, asteroids, meteoroids and comets that orbit it. These objects range in size from microscopic dust to the largest planets. They all have certain characteristics that scientists use to classify them. These include size, temperature and composition. Planets In our solar system, a planet…
The Sun, the eight planets and their moons, and countless asteroids, comets, and other small, icy objects comprise our Solar System. The Solar System formed 4.5 billion years ago from leftover materials from the collapse of a cloud of interstellar material. The four inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, were rocky, but the outer…
Our Solar System is a collection of planets, moons and dwarf planets that orbit the Sun. The planets range in size from the rocky Earth to the gaseous Jupiter. The Solar System also contains a large number of comets, asteroids and other small objects that fall into the system from outer space. Many of these…
A galaxy is a large, sprawling space system. It contains millions of stars, dust, interstellar gas, stellar remnants and dark matter all held together by gravity. There are many questions regarding whether solar systems can exist outside galaxies. Some of these questions have been answered. But there are still some questions that astronomers have not…
