Posts Tagged ‘ System ’

AFP – The US space agency NASA successfully tested an emergency abort system for the space shuttle’s successor, Orion, Thursday at a remote test site in the New Mexico desert. View full post on Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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Assuming the distance from heliopause to heliopause, what is the width of our solar system at its widest, in light years? Also, what is that same distance in astronomical units?
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In such case, will it be possible for us to know about such extraterrestrial life or will it be possible for us to communicate with them?
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Anyone know what the temperature is out side a solar system? This is for homework too.
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Where did the gravitational force in the Solar system originate from? What is our galaxy revolving around? Please explain in depth because I know the basics My bad, typo What is our Galaxy ROTATING around. If our galaxy is rotating around several massive black holes, 1. The whole galaxy would eventually get sucked into...
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I’m curious as to whether or not it presents problems to astronomers who are trying to get data from other galaxies through the plane of the Milky Way. Even if our solar system was at a 90° angle to the Milky way, is it even significant enough to get different views of the universe...
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I am doing a science project and I want to know how the solar system (mainly Saturn) was formed, other websites are making it confusing and long. Can some one please give me a short easy answer without saying “The Big Bang”?
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I actually have two questions about the plane of the solar system. First, why 90 degrees? Wouldn’t it make more sense for the solar system to by coplanar with the galaxy? At least that seems more intuitive to me. Second, how does this compare with extrasolar planets in other star systems in the Milky...
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As we all know, there has been recent speculation of what constitutes a planet and what doesn’t. The target of this mystery was Pluto. Yet the IAU (International Astronomical Union) says that a planet is “a celestial body that is in orbit around the sun, has sufficient mass for its self gravity to...
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What happened during the accretion phase of the early solar system? A. Particles grew by colliding and sticking together. B. Earth gained its oceans from icy planetesimal capture. C. The solar nebula differentiated into metals inside of the frost line and ices beyond. D. Large planetesimals captured atmospheres from the solar nebula. E. Atoms...
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Jupiter is the third brightest object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus. How did the ancients know that Jupiter was the largest planet? Jupiter is the king of the Gods according to mythology. Saturn has a larger orbit. Why didn’t they make Saturn the king of the Gods? Why is the...
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I’m taking a class in the astronomy department this spring and two are offered: “The Solar System” and “The Cosmic System”. What’s the difference?
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