Cosmology
Janus and Epimetheus: Saturn’s Orbit-Swapping Twin Moons
Janus and Epimetheus are two of Saturn’s moons that share the same orbit, separated by only…
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Cosmology
Janus and Epimetheus are two of Saturn’s moons that share the same orbit, separated by only…
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Cosmology
Hyperion is notably irregular in shape, not conforming to a spherical form, which is why it’s…
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Cosmology
Tethys was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini in 1684. It was named after a Titan from…
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Cosmology
In January 2016, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)…
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Cosmology
The Oort Cloud is the most distant region in our solar system, and it’s jaw-droppingly far…
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Cosmology
A black hole is a massive, compact astronomical object so dense that its gravity prevents anything—even…
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Cosmology
NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft completed its 60,000th orbit of the Red Planet on June 23, 2015.…
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Cosmology
On June 28, 2011, Pluto’s moon Kerberos was discovered by a team using the Hubble Space…
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Cosmology
Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when…
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