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The biggest dust bunny in town
The zodiacal light slants up from the northeastern horizon and tips to the right in this photo taken this morning at dawn (5 a.m.). The light is brightest at its base, where the dust particles are...
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Planets line up, world doesn’t end
The sun and the three largest planets line up with Earth late this month. Orbits are simplified to circles and sizes are not to scale. All the planets revolve counterclockwise around the sun as viewed...
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Pixel planet is home sweet home
Voyager 1 celebrates its 35th year in space today. The probe was 3.7 billion miles from Earth and 32 degrees above the plane of the solar system when it took this photo in 1990. Earth is only 0.12...
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‘If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel’– a real deal solar system simulator
Click to enjoy a journey across our spacious solar system courtesy of Josh Worth. How do you picture the solar system? Most of us imagine the eight planets as colorful balls of varying sizes moving in...
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ALMA reveals an infant solar system in remarkable detail
This is the sharpest image ever taken by ALMA, even crisper than is routinely achieved in visible light with the Hubble Space Telescope. It shows the protoplanetary disk surrounding the young star HL...
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Filmmakers Create Epic Scale Model Of The Solar System
Aerial view of a true scale model of the solar system built in the Nevada desert by Alex Gorosh, Wylie Overstreet and friends. See below for details and a fantastic video on its creation. Credit and...
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Jupiter Joins The Zodiacal Light Before Dawn
The long finger of the zodiacal light points up over the Wisconsin shore in this photo taken this morning from Duluth, Minn. The “star” in the center is Jupiter, which casts a reflection on Lake...
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