It's the 10-year anniversary of the first image of a human-made object touching a 4.6 billion-year-old comet
On November 12 2014, Philae – the lander of the spacecraft Rosetta of the European Space Agency (ESA) – landed on a comet for ...
Comet + Solar System From Danville: Photo Of The Day
The first was the famous Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS whose dust tail of several million miles graced skies all over the ...
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Check Out the Stunning New Images of Jupiter From NASA’s Juno Spacecraft
On its 66th flyby of the king of planets, Juno has captured spectacular views of the stormy atmosphere, processed by citizen ...
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How Old Is the Solar System, and How Did It Form?
How our own Solar System came to be? How we could know? Telescopes, microscopes, spectrometers, and gravitational wave detectors all help to piece together the deep history of our Solar System. Thanks ...
Almost Everything We Know About Planet Uranus May Be Wrong
"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.
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Jaw-dropping Jupiter images show gas giant in eye-popping detail
The resulting processed images allow us to see the detail of the swirls and ... NASA JPL say: "Now in its extended mission, ...
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Solar System: Icy Worlds
In 2007, Cassini sent back pictures of Iapetus. One side icy white, while the other looks as if it's been painted black. Iapetus is one of the weirdest looking moons in the Solar System.
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First Look: New Telescope Captures Stunning Images of Solar Storm
The first images from the Compact Coronagraph, a powerful solar telescope onboard the new ... Currently, GOES-19 is undergoing post-launch testing and system checks. Once the satellite assumes ...