Dark Matter and Dark Energy Articles

• Solar Flare
  Sun
  Northern Lights
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Cosmic Rays
   
  

  Solar flare

  A solar flare is a violent explosion in the Sun's atmosphere with an energy equivalent to tens of millions of hydrogen bombs. Solar flares take place in the solar corona and chromosphere, heating ... > more
• Pluto
  Solar System
  Kuiper Belt
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Ceres (dwarf planet)

  Ceres, also designated 1 Ceres or (1) Ceres, is the smallest dwarf planet in the Solar System and the only one located in the main asteroid belt. With a diameter of about 950 km, Ceres is by far the ... > more
• Saturn
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Moon
   
  

  Saturn

  Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, the second-largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. Saturn has a prominent system of rings, consisting of mostly ice particles ... > more
• Quantum Physics
  Physics
  Chemistry
  Inorganic Chemistry
  Cosmic Rays
  Graphene
   
  

  Atom

  In chemistry and physics, an atom is the smallest particle of a chemical element that retains its chemical properties. An atom consists of a dense nucleus of positively-charged protons and ... > more
• Uranus
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Jupiter
  Moon
   
  

  Uranus

  Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gas giant, the third largest by diameter and fourth largest by mass. NASA's Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited the planet and no other ... > more
• Sun
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Solar Flare
  Renewable Energy
  Atmosphere
  Northern Lights
   
  

  Solar radiation

  Solar radiation is radiant energy emitted by the sun, particularly electromagnetic energy. About half of the radiation is in the visible short-wave part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The other ... > more
• Jupiter
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Space Exploration
  Space Probes
  Pluto
   
  

  Jupiter

  Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and by far the largest within the solar system. Jupiter is usually the fourth brightest object in the sky (after the Sun, the Moon and Venus); however at ... > more
• Northern Lights
  Solar Flare
  Sun
  Astronomy
  Jupiter
  Black Holes
   
  

  Aurora (astronomy)

  The aurora is a glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar zone. It is also known as "northern lights" or "aurora borealis," which is Latin for "northern dawn" since in Europe especially, ... > more
• Black Holes
  Space Station
  Astronomy
  Space Probes
  NASA
  Space Telescopes
   
  

  Spacetime

  In physics, spacetime is a model that combines 3-D space and 1-D time into a single construct called the space-time continuum (the 4th ... > more
• Sun
  Solar Flare
  Astronomy
  Solar System
  Stars
  Northern Lights
   
  

  Sun

  The Sun is the spectral type G2V yellow star at the center of our solar system. About 5 million tons of matter is converted by the Sun's core into energy every second, producing neutrinos and solar ... > more

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