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You may have heard of your “sign” — sometimes called your “Zodiac sign” or your “star sign.” It’s a name that corresponds to mythology but also to stellar constellations. So why do you have the sign you have? Your sign is kind of, sort of related to the constellation that rises in the western night […]
Read it »Watch the story of the New Horizons probe which was sent to explore Pluto in 2015. Pluto is a scientific goldmine. It’s located in a region of space called the Kuiper Belt, where there are many small planets and trillions of comets. It takes 248 Earth years for Pluto to orbit our sun. Creating the […]
Read it »Find out why in this short video.
Read it »Most moons we observe are tidally-locked to the planets they orbit. This means the same side of the moon faces the planet at all times. What if the earth were tidally-locked with the sun?!? That would mean that only one side of earth would face the sun’s heat and light at all times. This video […]
Read it »There is a 1:1,000,000,000 scale (that’s one-billionth) model of our solar system along St Kilda beach in Melbourne, Australia. It’s probably the only way you’ll ever be able to tell your friends you hiked from Pluto to Mercury.
Read it »Carolyn Porco discusses how samples gathered from icy geysers on Saturn’s moon Enceladus hint that an ocean under its surface could harbor life.
Read it »A volcano moon, the biggest moon in the solar system, the oldest moon in the solar system, and a moon with the best chance of hosting life are Jupiter’s four Galilean moons, named after Galileo who discovered them in 1610. Jupiter has 79 moons that we know of so far. This is a long video […]
Read it »Have you ever wondered why we don’t see the “dark side of the moon”? It’s because the earth and the moon are in a pattern called “tidally locked.” Most moons in our solar system are tidally locked to the planets they orbit. How the moon was created contributed to this phenomenon. Learn more in this […]
Read it »The moon doesn’t change shapes but what we see of the moon does.
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