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  2. Timeline of discovery of Solar System planets and their moons

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    Earth: 3rd Planet: Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the subject of historical misconception for centuries. [4] [5] Earth was never formally 'discovered' because it was never an unrecognized entity by humans. However, its shared identity with other bodies as a "planet" is a historically recent discovery.

  3. Discovery and exploration of the Solar System - Wikipedia

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    In 1868 Jules Janssen and Norman Lockyer discovered a new element in the Sun unknown on Earth, helium, which currently comprises 23.8% of the mass in the solar photosphere. [34] As of today, spectroscopes are an important tool to know about the chemical composition of the celestial bodies.

  4. Timeline of Solar System astronomy - Wikipedia

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    1501 – Indian astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji proposes a universe in which the planets orbit the Sun, but the Sun orbits the Earth. [65] c. 1514 – Nicolaus Copernicus states his heliocentric theory in Commentariolus. [66] [67] [68] 1522 – First circumnavigation of the world by Magellan-Elcano expedition shows that the Earth is, in effect ...

  5. Kepler-452b - Wikipedia

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    Kepler-452b (sometimes quoted to be an Earth 2.0 or Earth's Cousin [4] [5] based on its characteristics; also known by its Kepler object of interest designation KOI-7016.01) is a candidate [6] [7] super-Earth exoplanet orbiting within the inner edge of the habitable zone of the sun-like star Kepler-452 and is the only planet in the system discovered by the Kepler space telescope.

  6. Aristarchus of Samos - Wikipedia

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    Aristarchus of Samos (/ ˌ æ r ə ˈ s t ɑːr k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, Aristarkhos ho Samios; c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a day.

  7. Timeline of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Friedrich Bessel successfully uses the method of stellar parallax, the effect of Earth's annual movement around the Sun, to calculate the distance to 61 Cygni, the first star other than the Sun to have its distance from Earth measured. Bessel's is a truly accurate measurement of stellar positions, and the parallax technique establishes a ...

  8. Whoa, Scientists Found the Universe's Invisible Galaxy - AOL

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    Scientists say they've discovered a new galaxy that's so dark and compact, it's basically invisible. But it's actually been here the whole time. Whoa, Scientists Found the Universe's Invisible Galaxy

  9. Solar System - Wikipedia

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    Thus, the Sun occupies 0.00001% (1 part in 10 7) of the volume of a sphere with a radius the size of Earth's orbit, whereas Earth's volume is roughly 1 millionth (10 −6) that of the Sun. Jupiter, the largest planet, is 5.2 AU from the Sun and has a radius of 71,000 km (0.00047 AU; 44,000 mi), whereas the most distant planet, Neptune, is 30 AU ...