Planets – Page 7 – National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Solar System Formation and Supernovae

In fact, the prevalent theory for the formation of our solar system is that a cloud of gas and…

Venus tends to look bright white to the human eye. Check out the Nine Planets web site description of…

I believe that this question has been answered before in our answer to “The Earth-Moon Spin-Orbit Resonance” question. The…

The reason that the Moon is slowly moving away from the Earth is due to the interaction of the…

I believe that the observation date format which includes a decimal on the day value indicates fractions of a…

Even though the Earth and the Moon have been bombarded by the same flux of impacting objects, the evidence…

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