Solar System
The top news about what’s going on in the cosmic neighborhood—from planet nine to the sun, and everything in between.
New computer simulations provide insights into the upper atmosphere of the ‘cloud-swaddled’ planet.
Chang’e-6 spacecraft’s payoff could be historic.
The moonlet orbiting the asteroid Dinkinesh is ‘a highly unusual and intricate body.’
It’s still upside down, but it’s showing signs of life.
Plus other weird things we learned this week.
You will need to have protective gear for your smartphone and camera lenses.
The SunSketcher app, which is free, will utilize your phone’s camera to capture the event and assist in studying the sun’s ‘oblateness.’
The successful DART mission likely made Dimorphos’ shape more ‘askew’ and eccentric.
Solar eclipses are the result of an amazing celestial coincidence of scale and distance.
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