Parade of 7 planets is a don’t-miss ‘great alignment’ in the sky: Where, when and how to watch
When we have five or more planets filing into a small sky area, an alignment is upgraded to parade status. Parade is not an ...
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Our Solar System's journey through the Milky Way may have altered Earth’s climate
Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased ...
'Gaia’s cosmic surprise': Giant planet found where it shouldn’t exist
Gaia unexpectedly discovered a giant exoplanet and a puzzling brown dwarf, challenging planetary formation theories and ...
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What will happen to the solar system when the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy merge?
So what will all this galactic motion do to the solar ... Milky Way/Andromeda close encounter. However, if this were not true, and provided that Earth wasn’t dislodged from the solar system ...
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NASA supercomputer finds billions of comets mimicking the Milky Way's shape: 'The universe seems to like spirals!'
Spirals are a repeating theme in astronomy, with arguably the most famous example of a swirling armed structure being our home galaxy, the Milky Way ... when our solar system's planets were ...
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Space Mystery of the Week: Why Does Our Solar System Like Spirals?
Astronomers have uncovered a surprising spiral structure at the edge of our solar system that closely resembles the distinctive shape of our Milky Way ... between our planet and the Sun.
Weather delays launch of NASA’s newest space telescope set to search for life’s key ingredients
Weather has delayed NASA’s launch of the SPHEREx telescope to uncover the ingredients for life in our galaxy, as well as the PUNCH mission to study the sun’s mysteries.