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- not man-made. Such objects are often called moons. The term is normally used ... The large gas giants have extensive systems of natural satellites ...19 KB (2,634 words) - 22:00, 30 June 2025
- ::For the Roman god Neptune please click here. : Neptune is the eighth ... title=Discovery of five irregular moons of Neptune|journal= Nature| volume ...30 KB (4,399 words) - 23:31, 30 June 2025
- mass. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have bulk chemical ... (astronomical). The first symbol derives from the name of its discoverer ...17 KB (2,530 words) - 13:36, 3 May 2023
- one celestial object moves into the shadow of another. When an eclipse occurs ... the occulting object, as it blocks the light of the star as seen from the more ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 18:01, 12 February 2024
- discovered. Approximately one-fifth the mass of the Earth's Moon, Pluto ... because they are closer in size than any of the other known celestial pair ...42 KB (6,097 words) - 12:55, 7 March 2026
- IAU 2006 General Assembly: Result of the IAU Resolution votes.] ... Working Group on Extrasolar Planets (WGESP) of the International Astronomical ...37 KB (5,407 words) - 12:38, 7 March 2026
- other gas giants—Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—are sometimes referred ... planets combined, so massive that its center of mass with the Sun actually ...32 KB (4,986 words) - 15:37, 28 February 2025
- is the home stellar system for human beings and all known forms of ... (including Pluto) with their four known moons, and billions of small bodies ...60 KB (9,448 words) - 15:09, 27 April 2023
- whose career coincided with that of Johannes Kepler. His work constitutes ... Galileo came into conflict with the Roman Catholic Church of his day ...28 KB (4,352 words) - 16:24, 17 March 2025
- Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of rock tends to form mountains ... like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has examples of volcanoes caused by "divergent ...32 KB (4,841 words) - 20:59, 3 May 2023
- , Okeanos (Oceanus) in Greek) is a major body of saline water, and ... The world ocean, an integral part of global climate, is constantly ...25 KB (3,710 words) - 18:53, 31 July 2025
- another object while under the influence of a source of centripetal force ... who formulated his results in his three laws of planetary motion based on Tycho ...29 KB (4,580 words) - 10:51, 1 September 2025
- from slightly different viewpoints to each of the viewer's eyes, merge ... Almost from the invention of the telescope in the seventeenth century ...22 KB (3,302 words) - 17:52, 31 October 2023
- Most asteroids are believed to be remnants of the protoplanetary disc or ... Hundreds of thousands of asteroids have been discovered within the ...22 KB (3,261 words) - 05:10, 18 August 2023
- An aurora is a natural display of glowing light in the night sky, ... combines the name Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn, with the word Boreas ...25 KB (3,925 words) - 17:52, 22 August 2023
- Planetary habitability is the measure of a planet's or a natural ... An absolute requirement for life is an energy source, and the notion ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 12:40, 7 March 2026
- Brown dwarfs are celestial objects ranging in mass between that of ... Early theories concerning the nature of the lowest mass stars and ...26 KB (3,884 words) - 04:37, 22 November 2023
