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• Stars
  Jupiter
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  Solar Flare
   
  

  Red supergiant

  Red supergiants are supergiant stars of spectral type K-M and a luminosity class of I. They are the largest stars in the universe in terms of physical size, although they are not the most massive. ... > more
• Mercury
  Solar System
  Astronomy
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  Pluto
   
  

  Mercury (planet)

  Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. It ranges in brightness from about −2.0 to 5.5 in apparent magnitude, but is not easily ... > more
• Moon
  Solar System
  Pluto
  Space Missions
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  Moon

  The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite. The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,399 kilometres (238,854 mi), which is about 30 times the diameter of the Earth. At this distance, it ... > more
• Solar System
  Astronomy
  Pluto
  Sun
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar Flare
   
  

  Solar System

  The Solar System consists of the Sun and the other celestial objects gravitationally bound to it: the eight planets, their 165 known moons, three dwarf planets (Ceres, Pluto, and Eris and their four ... > more
• Satellites
  Pluto
  Moon
  Astronomy
  NASA
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
   
  

  Satellite

  A satellite is any object that orbits another object (which is known as its primary). Satellites can be manmade or may be naturally occurring such as moons, comets, asteroids, planets, stars, and ... > more
• Kuiper Belt
  Pluto
  Eris (Xena)
  Solar System
  Astronomy
  Extrasolar Planets
   
  

  Eris (dwarf planet)

  Eris is the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system. It is a trans-Neptunian object (TNO), orbiting the Sun in a region of space known as the scattered disc, just beyond the Kuiper belt, and ... > more
• Volcanoes
  Natural Disasters
  Sports Science
  Geology
  Global Warming
  Early Climate
   
  

  Volcano

  A volcano is an opening (or rupture) in the Earth's surface or crust, which allows hot, molten rock, ash, and gases to escape from deep below the surface. Volcanic activity involving the extrusion of ... > 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
• Astrophysics
  Astronomy
  Black Holes
  Space Telescopes
  Stars
  Galaxies
   
  

  Astrophysics

  Astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties (luminosity, density, temperature and chemical composition) of astronomical ... > more

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