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The Website for All About Space Magazine. Find out why the hottest planet in the Solar System is so bright in our night sky.
The data collected by JAXA’s Venus orbiter, Akatsuki, has strangely not showed a single glimpse of lightning Solar System SpaceX’s Starman and Elon Musk’s Tesla have made a lap around the Sun
The colour of a planet is decided by what the surface and atmosphere are made of and how light reflects and interacts with a planet’s atmosphere. Mercury, for example, has virtually no atmosphere, so the grey colour we see comes from light reflected directly from its surface.
Why have scientists and engineers invested so much time, effort and money into a mission to a nearby asteroid? comments NASA’s OSIRIS-REx space probe arrived at asteroid Bennu on 31 December 2018, and is expected to depart in early 2021.
The galaxies in this gigantic cluster make up less than five per cent of its mass, while around 20 per cent is made of gas that’s so unbearably hot it glows in a blazing red, representative of X-rays. Blue colouring marks around 75 per cent of the cluster, showing the distribution of elusive and invisible dark matter.
Hot Jupiters are exactly what their name suggests. These alien worlds are made of gas (just like their prototype) and are often found orbiting extremely closely to their star – much closer in than Mercury is to our Sun. Some get so hot that their surfaces are often found to reach temperatures of a thousand to a several thousand degrees Celsius.
When the universe formed, it did so following a fairly loose structure. This difference in galaxy shape simply arises from their orientation with respect to the Earth. Our current understanding of cosmology suggests that dark matter helped shape the large-scale structure of the universe.
They’re incredibly hot – up to 90,000 degrees Fahrenheit, compared to the Sun’s 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. “These stars have certainly completed fusing all of the hydrogen in their core into helium, explaining why they are so small and can oscillate so rapidly,” says Bildsten. The discovery came as a surprise.
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The following is an excerpt from our full interview with Brian May. To read the entire interview check out issue 6 of All About Space, on sale now.