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Astronomers “Weigh” a Rogue Planet and Pin Down Mass and Distance for a Starless World
The team’s analysis points to a lensing object with a mass of 0.219 Jupiter masses, a touch lighter than Saturn or around 70 ...
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A Saturn-sized planet may be drifting through space alone
Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to ...
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A rogue planet with no star, astronomers nail its mass and distance
Astronomers have finally pinned down the mass and distance of a lonely world that drifts through the galaxy without a parent ...
Introduces the solar system and its nine planets. Includes directions for making two models: one showing relative sizes of the planets and the other, their relative distances from the sun.
A team of scientists just demonstrated something that might shock you: Mercury, not Venus, is the closest planet to Earth on average. The researchers presented their results this week in an article in ...
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