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Five planets are going to be retrograde in the summer of 2024. Here are the dates for Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde, Saturn retrograde, Neptune retrograde, Pluto retrograde and more.
Four planets are a small alignment, which we saw during April 8’s eclipse. Large alignments, like the one we're seeing this June, contain five to six planets. A great or full alignment includes ...
The first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery. [37] 2114 Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest-known planet-like object orbiting the Sun. 2117 December 11 Transit of Venus [38] for the first time since 2012: 2119 May 17 Periodic comet 144P/Kushida will pass about 0.049 AU (7.3 million km; 4.6 million mi; 19 LD) from Mars. [39] 2123
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Its name is a tribute to the novel and 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Launched: 7 April 2001; Destination: Mars; Arrival: 24 October 2001; Institution: NASA; Mars Express. Mission: Mars orbiter designed to study the planet's atmosphere and geology and search for sub-surface water. [6] In 2017 the mission was extended until at least the end of ...
An artist's rendition of Kepler-62f, a potentially habitable exoplanet discovered using data transmitted by the Kepler space telescope. The list of exoplanets detected by the Kepler space telescope contains bodies with a wide variety of properties, with significant ranges in orbital distances, masses, radii, composition, habitability, and host star type.
Shawn Dahl, a forecast coordinator with the Space Weather Prediction Center, told CBS Boston that the northern lights have been so intense lately because of where the sun is in its 11-year solar ...
Planet nine may be orbiting far from the Sun, at the edge of our solar system. Astronomers, seeing odd irregularities in the orbits of the outer planets suspect another, unknown, planet may orbit ...