Tag: solar system

September 14, 2017 at 12:21 am

After Two Decades in Space, Cassini is About to Crash Into Saturn. These are the Final Images

After Two Decades in Space, Cassini is About to Crash Into Saturn. These are the Final Images

After two decades in space, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is nearing the end of its remarkable journey of exploration

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March 1, 2017 at 4:44 pm

3D-Printed, Scale Model of the Solar System Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

3D-Printed, Scale Model of the Solar System Fits in the Palm of Your Hand

Little Planet Factory has created a 3D-printed, 1:1.5 billion scale model of our Solar System

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July 19, 2016 at 5:05 pm

Picture of the Day: Jupiter From ‘Below’

Picture of the Day: Jupiter From 'Below'

The polar stereographic projection by NASA shows the south pole in the center of the map and the equator at the edge

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December 16, 2015 at 11:56 am

Picture of the Day: Cassini Captures Saturn Moons in Perfect Alignment with Rings

Picture of the Day: Cassini Captures Saturn Moons in Perfect Alignment with Rings

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this incredible view of Saturn moons, Enceladus and Tethys, in perfect alignment with the planet’s rings

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October 15, 2015 at 12:01 pm

Picture of the Day: Blue Skies on Pluto

Picture of the Day: Blue Skies on Pluto

Incredible when you think how far from Earth this picture was taken from.

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September 17, 2015 at 8:25 am

A Group of Friends Build the Solar System to Scale in the Middle of the Desert

A Group of Friends Build the Solar System to Scale in the Middle of the Desert

On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.

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March 17, 2015 at 10:09 am

Picture of the Day: Buzz Aldrin’s Message to the Cosmos

Picture of the Day: Buzz Aldrin's Message to the Cosmos

Photograph by James O. Davies via Buzz Aldrin on Twitter While visiting Stonehenge, astronaut Buzz Aldrin sent a “message” to the Cosmos, urging NASA to “get their ass to Mars”. Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 11 and became the second person to ever walk on the moon at 03:15:16 (UTC) on…

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February 8, 2015 at 2:25 pm

43 Minute Real Time Journey from the Sun to Jupiter at the Speed of Light

43 Minute Real Time Journey from the Sun to Jupiter at the Speed of Light

Light travels at a speed of 299,792 km per second (186,282 mps). That’s fast. Jupiter is 778,500,000 km (483,737,000 miles) from the Sun. That’s far. To try to convey the vastness of space, Alphonse Swinehart created this animation to illustrate that even at the blistering speed of light, it takes over 43 minutes just…

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November 30, 2014 at 4:49 pm

Putting Our Solar System Into Perspective

Putting Our Solar System Into Perspective

This amazing graphic was created by Roberto Ziche and shows our solar system to scale. Roberto explains: “At the Chabot Space and Science Center there were some old, poor quality images, probably downloaded from internet and printed on office paper, showing the Sun and the planets to scale. I found the images content to…

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October 30, 2014 at 8:33 pm

Rendezvous with a Comet

Rendezvous with a Comet

AMBITION is a short film starring Aidan Gillen (Littlefinger, GAME OF THRONES) in support of the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Rosetta Mission. Directed by Tomek Bagiński, the “6 minute trailer to a 20 year mission” tells the story of one of the most important space exploration endeavours of this decade. Just as Gillen’s enigmatic…

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