The NASA New Horizons spacecraft is currently on its way to the dwarf planet Pluto, at the outskirts of our solar system. The object, located in the Kuiper Belt, will be just the first stop for the probe. Now, the general public has a chance to help experts decided on other targets of interest. The robot is scheduled... |
22 June 2011
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It's a known fact that the Sun will reach a point where it burns its hydrogen and will start swelling as it gets warmer, transforming into a red giant, and that all this will occur in approximately 5 billion years. But first, in about 1.1 billion years, it will become 11% brighter, lifting the Earth's aver... |
23 October 2008
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The two objects in the Kuiper Belt (the icy ring at the edge of our solar system, 6 billion km away from Earth) share a common name, 2001 QW322. They orbit each other in what appears to be the faintest reciprocal influence of two celestial bodies in our system, and they have been doing so for billions of years, whic... |
21 October 2008
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