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| x Mercury |
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Sun | 1 |
Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three...
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The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Sun, by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass; the remainder consists of the planets (including Earth), asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and dust in orbit. About three...
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| x Venus |
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Sun | 2 |
Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent...
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| x Earth |
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Sun | 3 | 147,098,074 km |
Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the fifth largest of the eight planets in the solar system, and the largest of the terrestrial planets (non-gas planets) in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density. It is also referred to...
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| x Mars |
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Sun | 4 |
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface.
Mars is a...
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| x Jupiter |
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Sun | 5 |
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all of the other planets in our Solar...
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Sun | 6 |
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant. Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the...
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Sun | 8 |
Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its...
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Sun | 7 |
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus (Ancient Greek: Οὐρανός) the father of Kronos (Saturn) and grandfather...
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| x Pluto |
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Sun | 9 |
Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System (after Eris) and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Classified as a planet from its 1930 discovery until 2006, Pluto is now...
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| x Moon |
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Earth | 1 | 363,104 km |
The Moon is the earth's companion satellite, though some astronomers believe that it approaches being a planet in its own right. The Moon is large enough for its gravity to affect the Earth, stabilising its orbit and producing the regular ebb and...
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| x Phobos |
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Mars | 1 |
Phobos (pronounced /ˈfoʊbəs/ FOE-bəs, or as Greek Φόβος) (systematic designation: Mars I) is the larger and closer of two small moons of Mars, the other being Deimos. It is named after the Greek god Phobos (which means "fear"), a son of Ares (Mars)....
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| x Deimos |
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Mars | 2 |
Deimos (pronounced /ˈdaɪməs/ DYE-məs; also /ˈdiːməs/ DEE-məs, as in Greek Δείμος), is the smaller and outer of Mars’ two moons (the other being Phobos). It is named after Deimos, a figure representing dread in Greek Mythology. Its systematic...
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The Galactic Center is the rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy. It is located at a distance of 7.62±0.32 kpc (~25,000±1,000 ly) from the Earth in the direction of the constellations Sagittarius, Ophiuchus, and Scorpius where the Milky Way...
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| x Io |
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Jupiter | 5 | 420,000 km |
Io (pronounced /ˈaɪ.oʊ/, or as Greek Ἰώ) is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometres, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera who became...
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| x 23P/Brorsen-Metcalf |
Comet Brorsen-Metcalf is a periodic comet in our solar system that was first discovered by Theodor Brorsen (Altona, Germany) on July 20, 1847, and again by Kaspar Schweizer (Moscow) on August 11, 1847, the prediction was made it would return between...
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| x 1543 Bourgeois |
1543 Bourgeois (1941 SJ) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 21, 1941 by Delporte, E. at Uccle.
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| x 11149 Tateshina |
11149 Tateshina (1997 XZ9) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on December 5, 1997 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
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Altair (Alpha Aquilae / Alpha Aql / α Aquilae / α Aql / Atair) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the night sky. It is an A-type main sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0.77 and is one...
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| x Epsilon Ursae Majoris |
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Epsilon Ursae Majoris (ε UMa / ε Ursae Majoris) is the brightest star in the constellation Ursa Major (despite its Bayer designation being merely "epsilon"), and at magnitude 1.76 is the thirty-first brightest star in the sky. It has the traditional...
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Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9, formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of solar system objects. This generated a large...
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Mizar (ζ UMa / ζ Ursae Majoris) is a star in the constellation Ursa Major and is the second star from the end of the Big Dipper's handle. Its apparent magnitude is 2.23 and its spectral class is A1V. Mizar's name comes from the Arabic ميزر mīzar,...
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Spica (α Vir / α Virginis / Alpha Virginis) is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo, and the 15th brightest star in the nighttime sky. It is 260 light years distant from Earth. A blue giant, it is a variable of the Beta Cephei type.
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| x Thuban |
Thuban (α Dra / α Draconis / Alpha Draconis) is a star (or star system) in the constellation of Draco. A relatively inconspicuous star in the night sky of the Northern Hemisphere, it is historically significant as having been the north pole star in...
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52 Europa (pronounced /jʊˈroʊpə/ ew-ROE-pə) is one of the larger asteroids. It has a diameter of 300 km, and was discovered on February 4, 1858 by H. Goldschmidt. It is named after Europa, one of Zeus's conquests in Greek mythology. Europa is...
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243 Ida (pronounced /ˈaɪdə/; EYE-da) is an asteroid in the Koronis family of the main belt. It was discovered on 29 September 1884 by Johann Palisa and named after a nymph from Greek mythology. Later telescopic observations categorized Ida as an S...
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588 Achilles is an asteroid discovered on February 22, 1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf. It was the first of the Trojan asteroids to be discovered, and is named after Achilles, the fictional hero from the Iliad. It orbits in the L4 Lagrangian...
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| x Alpha Arietis |
Alpha Arietis (Alpha Ari / α Ari / α Arietis), which also has the traditional names Hamal and El Nath, is the brightest star in the constellation Aries. Its Flamsteed designation is 13 Arietis, but this is very rarely used because it has a Bayer...
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| x HE0107-5240 |
HE0107-5240 is an extremely metal-poor Population II star, located roughly 36,000 light years away from the Earth, that has a mass of approximately 80% of the mass of the Sun. It is one of the most metal-poor stars known in our Galaxy, with a...
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| x Eta Canis Majoris |
Eta Canis Majoris (η CMa / η Canis Majoris) is a star in the constellation Canis Major. It has the traditional name Aludra.
Aludra shines brightly in the skies in spite of a large distance from Earth due to being intrinsically many times brighter ...
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| x Beta Tauri |
Beta Tauri (β Tau / β Tauri) is the second brightest star in the constellation Taurus, with apparent magnitude 1.7. Because it is on the boundary of Taurus with Auriga, it also has the redundant Bayer designation Gamma Aurigae (γ Aur), which is...
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| x Beta Arietis |
Beta Arietis (β Ari / β Arietis) is a star in the constellation Aries, it is the Ram's second horn. It has the traditional name Sheratan (or Sharatan, Sheratim), and the Flamsteed designation 6 Arietis.
The traditional name, in full Al Sharatan, is...
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| x 141 Lumen |
141 Lumen is a dark (C-type), large rocky asteroid 130 km in diameter orbiting in the Main belt near the Eunomia family of asteroids. It is not, however, physically related to the group, being of the wrong spectral class.Yet, NASA continues to...
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| x Teegarden's star |
Teegarden's Star, also known as SO J025300.5+165258, is an M-type red dwarf star located about 12 light years away in the constellation Aries. Dispite its proximity to Earth it is a dim magnitude 15 and can only be seen through large telescopes....
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| x Comet Kohoutek |
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Comet Kohoutek, formally designated C/1973 E1, 1973 XII, and 1973f, was first sighted on March 7, 1973 by Czech astronomer Luboš Kohoutek. It attained perihelion on December 28 that same year.
Comet Kohoutek is a long period comet; its previous...
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| x Kappa Orionis |
Kappa Orionis (κ Ori / κ Orionis / 53 Orionis) is the sixth-brightest star in the constellation of Orion. It has the traditional name Saiph. Of the four bright stars that compose Orion's main quadrangle, it is the star at the south-eastern corner. A...
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| x Lacaille 9352 |
Lacaille 9352 (Lac 9352) is a red dwarf star approximately 3.29 pc or 10.74 light years from Earth's Solar System. This star has the fourth highest known proper motion, moving a total of 6.9" per year. (This is still a very small movement overall,...
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| x Ross 248 |
Ross 248 (HH Andromedae) is a red dwarf star located approximately 10.3 light years (3.2 pc) in the constellation Andromeda. This star was first catalogued by Frank Elmore Ross in 1926 with his second list of proper motion stars.
This star has about...
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| x Ross 128 |
Ross 128 is a red dwarf star that is the eleventh closest star system to the Solar System, at a distance of 10.89 light years. It was first cataloged in 1926 by Frank Elmore Ross.
This is an old disk star, which means it has a low metallicity and...
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| x Kapteyn's Star |
Kapteyn's Star is a class M1 red dwarf star about 13 light years from Earth in the southern constellation of Pictor. With a magnitude of nearly 9 it is only visible through a telescope.
It was originally cataloged by the Dutch astronomer, Jacobus...
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| x Achernar |
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Achernar (α Eri / α Eridani / Alpha Eridani), sometimes spelled Achenar, is the brightest star in the constellation Eridanus and the ninth-brightest star in the nighttime sky. Of the top ten apparent brightest stars (excluding our Sun): Sirius,...
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| x Beta Centauri |
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Beta Centauri (β Cen / β Centauri), also known as Hadar or Agena, is the second brightest star in the constellation Centaurus and the tenth brightest star in the night sky. Beta Centauri is a B1 III blue-white...
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| x 65 Cybele |
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65 Cybele (pronounced /ˈsɪbɨliː/ SIB-əl-ee, or as in Greek Κυβέλη) is one of the largest asteroids in the main belt. It gives its name to the Cybele asteroids which orbit outward from the Sun from the 2:1 orbital resonance with Jupiter. As a C-type...
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| x GJ 1061 |
GJ 1061 (Gliese-Jahreiss 1061) is a small red dwarf star approximately 12.08 light-years from Earth's Solar System. The distance to this star was only accurately determined in 1997, and it is now listed among the 25 nearest star systems to the Sun....
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| x 11169 Alkon |
The Main belt asteroid 11169 Alkon was discovered by the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Ceres Connection program was established in partnership with Science Service to name minor planets for students selected...
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| x Luyten's Star |
Luyten's Star (GJ 273) is a red dwarf star in the constellation Canis Minor. It is located at a distance of around 12.36 light-years and has a visual magnitude of 9.9, making it too faint to be viewed with the unaided eye. It is named after Willem...
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| x W Ursae Majoris |
W Ursae Majoris (W UMa) is a variable star in the constellation Ursa Major. It is an eclipsing contact binary whose two component stars share a common outer layer, and is the prototype of a class of contact binary variables known as W Ursae Majoris...
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| x C/1811 F1 |
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The Great Comet of 1811, formally designated C/1811 F1, was a comet that was visible to the naked eye for around 260 days, a record it held until the appearance of Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997. In October 1811, at its brightest, it displayed an apparent...
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| x HR 465 |
HR 465 (GY Andromedae or GY And) is an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum type variable star in the constellation Andromeda. Its brightness fluctuates between 6.27 mag and 6.41 mag. It belongs to the group of CP stars (chemically peculiar stars). Its most...
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RR Lyrae is a variable star in the Lyra constellation. It is the prototype of the RR Lyrae variables star class. It has a period of about 13 hours, and oscillates between apparent magnitudes 7 and 8. Its variable nature was discovered by the...
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Deneb (α Cyg / α Cygni / Alpha Cygni) is the brightest star in the constellation Cygnus and one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle. It is the 19th brightest star in the night sky, with an apparent magnitude of 1.25. A blue-white supergiant,...
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| x Zeta Puppis |
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Zeta Puppis (ζ Pup / ζ Puppis) is a star in the constellation of Puppis. It is also known by the traditional names Naos (pronounced /ˈneɪ.ɒs/, from the Greek ναύς "ship") and Suhail Hadar (سهيل هدار, possibly "roaring bright one") in Arabic.
Its...
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| x Beta Canis Minoris |
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Beta Canis Minoris (β CMi / β Canis Minoris) is a star in the constellation of Canis Minor. It has the traditional name Gomeisa.
Beta Canis Minoris is a hot, B8-class main sequence star of apparent magnitude 2.9, easily visible to the naked eye. It...
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| x 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann |
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Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, was discovered on 15 November 1925 by Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann at the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf, Germany. The comet was discovered photographically, when...
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| x T Tauri |
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T Tauri is a variable star in the constellation Taurus, the prototype of the T Tauri stars. It was discovered in October 1852 by John Russell Hind. T Tauri appears from Earth amongst the Hyades cluster, not far from ε Tauri; but it is actually 420...
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| x 46P/Wirtanen |
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46P/Wirtanen is a small short-periodic comet with a current orbital period of 5.4 years. It was the original target for close investigation by the Rosetta spacecraft, planned by the European Space Agency. It belongs to the Jupiter family of comets,...
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| x 32P/Comas Solá |
32P/Comas Solá is the name of a periodic comet with a current orbital period of 8.8 years.
32P/Comas Solá was discovered November 5, 1926 by Josep Comas Solá. As part of his work on asteroids for the Fabra Observatory (Barcelona), he was taking...
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| x 12P/Pons-Brooks |
12P/Pons-Brooks is the designation for a periodic comet with a period of 71 years. The comet was suggested by Carl Sagan as the spectacular comet seen by the Chinese in 1486 BCE which, according to historical researcher Graham Phillips, might have...
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| x Cayrel's Star |
BPS CS31082-0001, named Cayrel's Star, is an old Population II star located in a distance of 4 kpc in the Galactic Halo. It belongs to the class of ultra-metal-poor stars (Metallicity [Fe/H]=-2.9), especially the very rare subclass of neutron...
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| x 2063 Bacchus |
The Apollo, Venus- and Mars-crosser asteroid 2063 Bacchus (pronounced /ˈbækəs/ bak'-əs) was discovered on April 24, 1977 by Charles T. Kowal at the Palomar Observatory. In March 1996 radar observations of the asteroid were conducted at the Goldstone...
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