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Earth vs Venus – while they are two planets in our solar system, the former is the third planet while the latter is the fourth planet in the solar system. In addition, the mass of the former is much more than the latter. The latter is very close to the…
If you have looked into the night sky, you may have noticed the Moon appears to change shape each night. Some nights, the Moon might look like a narrow crescent. Other nights, the Moon might look like a bright circle. And on other nights, you might not be able to…
Astronomy is one of the oldest natural sciences. The early civilizations in recorded history made methodical observations of the night sky. These include the Babylonians, Greeks, Indians, Egyptians, Chinese, Maya, and many ancient indigenous peoples of the Americas. In the past, astronomy included disciplines as diverse as astrometry, celestial…
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but slightly less than one-thousandth the mass of the…
You’d probably be scared if I told you a huge asteroid is going to collide with our planet sometime in the future, right? Of course you’d be, anyone would be. Now forget the asteroid, what if I told you an entire galaxy is coming your way, racing towards you at…
Do you ever just look at the moon & say to it “Wait you weren’t like this a few days back, did you just change shape?” Well, we have all at some point been amazed at how the moon appeared to go from nothing to a thin ‘C’, to a…