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• Moon
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  Apollo 11

  Apollo 11 was an American space mission, part of the Apollo program and the first manned mission to land on the Moon.It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program, and the third human ... > more
• Jupiter
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  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
• Moon
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  Pluto
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  Jupiter
   
  

  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
• Venus
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  Venus

  Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. It is the brightest object in the night sky, except for the Moon, reaching an apparent magnitude of -4.6. Venus ... > more
• Jupiter
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  Sun
  Solar Flare
   
  

  Great Red Spot

  The Great Red Spot is a persistent anticyclonic storm on the planet Jupiter, 22 degrees south of the equator, which has lasted at least 340 years. The storm is large enough to be visible through ... > more
• Solar Flare
  Cosmic Rays
  Sun
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Van Allen radiation belt

  The Van Allen radiation belt is a torus of energetic charged particles (i.e. a plasma) around Earth, trapped by Earth's magnetic field. When the belts "overload", particles strike the upper ... > more
• Solar System
  Neptune
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  Neptune's natural satellites

  Neptune has 13 known moons. The largest by far is Triton, discovered by William Lassell just 17 days after the discovery of Neptune itself. It took a hundred years to discover the second, Nereid. ... > more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Solar System
  Pluto
  Kuiper Belt
  Jupiter
  Eris (Xena)
   
  

  Asteroid belt

  The asteroid belt is a region of the solar system falling roughly between the planets Mars and Jupiter where the greatest concentration of asteroid orbits can be found. Despite popular imagery, the ... > more
• NASA
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  Cosmology
  Astrophysics
   
  

  Carl Sagan

  Dr Carl Edward Sagan (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrobiologist and highly successful science popularizer. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for ... > 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

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