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4 days ago · Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Friday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.
3 days ago · At today’s aphelion, the planet is 94.5 million miles (152 million kilometers) away from the sun, according to timeanddate.com.
1 day ago · Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system in terms of size and mass. Its near-surface environments are the only places in the universe known to harbour life.
- Earth is located in the Orion-Cygnus Arm, one of the four spiral arms of the Milky Way, which lies about two-thirds of the way from the centre of t...
- Earth’s name in English, the international language of astronomy, derives from Old English and Germanic words for ground and earth, and it is the o...
- Earth and the other planets in the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. The early Earth had no ozone layer and no free oxygen, lacked o...
- Viewed from another planet, Earth would appear bright and bluish in colour. In latitudinal belts, swirling white cloud patterns of midlatitude and...
19 hours ago · The James Webb Space Telescope recently spotted evidence that a planet over 48 light-years away is home to a liquid water ocean. Exoplanet LHS 1140 b, which has about 1.7 times the radius of Earth ...
1 day ago · Universe Today - Space and astronomy news. Posts. July 4, 2024 by Evan Gough. Webb Sees a Star in the Midst of Formation. In this JWST image, a young protostar is growing larger and emitting jets...
5 days ago · Jupiter, the most massive planet of the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun. It is one of the brightest objects in the night sky; only the Moon, Venus, and sometimes Mars are more brilliant. Jupiter is designated by the symbol ♃.