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Comets 17 Jun 2010 | 06:01 am
Comets have held a high fascination for all levels of astronomers all the way back to the first civilizations that provided a recorded history through writing or picture. Ancient civilizations first ...
Artificial Satellites 17 Jun 2010 | 05:57 am
By definition a satellite is any object placed in orbit due to a gravitational pull of a larger entity. Since moons and some asteroids would fall under this description, the term artificial satellite...
The Hubble Telescope 17 Jun 2010 | 05:55 am
The Hubble Space Telescope, designed by NASA and the European Space agency, has been capturing pictures of stunning celestial objects for the past two decades. The concept of launching a telescope in...
Neptune 17 Jun 2010 | 05:53 am
Neptune is the furthest planet from our Sun and named after the Roman God of the sea. As far as planetary bodies are concerned it is the fourth largest planet in diameter and the third largest in mas...
Uranus 17 Jun 2010 | 05:50 am
Uranus is the second furthest planet from the Sun and is the third largest within our solar system at fourteen and a half times larger than the Earth. As with the other gas giants it shares its disti...
Saturn 17 Jun 2010 | 05:47 am
Saturn, a large gas giant and the sixth planet from the Sun, is mainly associated with the many rings that encompass the planet. It is the second largest planet within the solar system, smaller than ...
Jupiter 17 Jun 2010 | 05:44 am
Jupiter has the distinction of being the largest planet within our solar system; it is so large that its size is two and a half times larger than every other planet in the solar system combined. A di...
Mars 17 Jun 2010 | 05:42 am
The planet Mars has always been a fascinating subject of interest among those who did not closely follow astronomy, especially just before the turn of the 20th century when the idea of Martians inhabi...
Earth 17 Jun 2010 | 05:39 am
The Earth has the distinction of being the third planet from the Sun, but may be better known as the only planet ever discovered that supports life on its surface. Scientists date the planet’s age at...
Venus 17 Jun 2010 | 05:26 am
The planet Venus derives its name from ancient Babylonians around 1600 BC associating it with the Goddess of love, and it is the only planet within our solar system named after a female figure. The o...
