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An interstellar visitor may have changed the course of 4 solar system planets, study suggests
An object eight times the mass of Jupiter may have swooped around the sun, coming superclose to Mars' present-day orbit ...
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How to see all the solar system’s planets in the night sky at once
All seven of the other planets in our solar system are about to become visible at once in a great planetary alignment – ...
Super-Earth vs. sub-Neptune? The winner is super-Venus as Webb confirms a new type of planet
New observational data from the James Webb Space Telescope and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike ...
Scientists Think An Ancient Interloper Once Disrupted Our Entire Solar System
When you first learned about the Solar System, you probably saw diagrams that made it look orderly, with planets arranged in circular orbits around the Sun on a flat disk. But in reality, our Solar ...
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Close Encounter with a Giant Interstellar Object May Have Altered Our Solar System, Astronomers Say
A close encounter with a mysterious interstellar object could explain the current orbits of several of Earth’s largest ...
Mysterious Interstellar Object May Have Influenced The Course Of Our Solar System Planets: Study
A new study, currently under review for publication, suggests that an ancient cosmic visitor might have significantly altered the orbits of our solar system's giant planets. Scientists propose that ...
Exploring an alternate solar system: Research maps impact of 'super-Earth'
Emily Simpson has loved space since she was a 10-year-old kid celebrating her birthday at a planetarium. Now a recent Florida ...
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CosmoScout VR - open-source simulation of our Solar System
CosmoScout VR is an open-source simulation of our solar system developed at the Institute for Software Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR). It is primarily aimed at the interactive ...