The Cosmic Spectacle of January 2025: Planetary Alignment in the Elliptical Plane
Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter will align within the elliptical plane, offering a striking celestial display. This rare ...
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Mysterious spiral galaxy jet puzzles astronomers: 'At first, I thought I completely messed up'
"Because it's such a large supermassive black hole at the center, we'd predicted we'd see an elliptical galaxy." The spiral host galaxy, a quasar named J0742+2704, was discovered emanating a ...
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Jupiter will be at its biggest and brightest this weekend. Here’s how to see it
This happens because, although Earth and Jupiter both have orbits around the sun that are almost circular, they are not perfectly circular. Both orbits are slightly oval shaped, called elliptical ...
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A planet thrice the size of Jupiter discovered due to its 'strange orbit'
Astronomers at California Planet Search have found a new planet that's three times the size of Jupiter in the outer ... HR 5138 b has an elliptical orbit that isn't equidistant from its star ...
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Milky Way
Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative ...
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A Giant Object May Have Warped Our Solar System, Study Reveals
New research suggests that a massive, unidentified object might have passed through our Solar System billions of years ago, ...
How to Watch the Rare Planet Parade Twinkle Across the Night Sky
Six planets are lining up in a row from our Earthly view of the cosmos, in a spectacle that'll be visible in January through ...
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Exotic Objects
Included in the image are (from top to bottom) Jupiter, Saturn ... It is also called the “Cigar Galaxy” because of the elliptical shape produced by the oblique tilt of its starry disk relative ...