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HH 30: A Star System with Planets Now Forming

By |2025-02-19T08:09:07-05:00February 19th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How do stars and planets form? New clues have been found in the protoplanetary system Herbig-Haro 30 by the James Webb Space Telescope in concert with Hubble and the Earth-bound ALMA. The observations show, among other things, that large dust grains are more concentrated into a central disk where they [...]

An Evening Sky Full of Planets

By |2025-01-11T08:09:06-05:00January 11th, 2025|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day Only Mercury is missing from a Solar System parade of planets in this early evening skyscape. Rising nearly opposite the Sun, bright Mars is at the far left. The other naked-eye planets Jupiter, Saturn, and Venus, can also be spotted, with the the position of too-faint Uranus and Neptune marked [...]

Planets Around a Total Eclipse

By |2024-04-10T09:09:08-04:00April 10th, 2024|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day What wonders appear when the Moon blocks the Sun? For many eager observers of Monday’s total eclipse of the Sun, the suddenly dark sky included the expected corona and two (perhaps surprise) planets: Venus and Jupiter. Normally, in recent days, Venus is visible only in the morning when the Sun [...]

Planets of the Solar System: Tilts and Spins

By |2022-09-11T14:09:12-04:00September 11th, 2022|Categories: NASA News, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

Photo of the Day How does your favorite planet spin? Does it spin rapidly around a nearly vertical axis, or horizontally, or backwards? The featured video animates NASA images of all eight planets in our Solar System to show them spinning side-by-side for an easy comparison. In the time-lapse video, a day on Earth [...]

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