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  Johannes Kepler

  Johannes Kepler (December 27, 1571 - November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German Lutheran mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Kepler lived in an era when there ... > more
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  Galileo Galilei

  Galileo Galilei (Pisa, February 15, 1564 to January 8, 1642), was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. He has been referred to ... > more
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  Solar eclipse

  A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partially obscuring Earth's view of the Sun. This configuration can only occur during a New Moon, when the ... > more
• Saturn
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  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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  Sirius

  Sirius is the brightest star in the nighttime sky. Sirius can be seen from every inhabited region of the Earth's surface. There are a few unsolved mysteries regarding ... > more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
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  Asteroid

  Asteroids, also called minor planets or planetoids, are a class of astronomical object. The term asteroid is generally used to indicate a diverse group of small celestial bodies that drift in the ... > more
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Planetary habitability

  Planetary habitability is the measure of an astronomical body's potential to develop and sustain life. It is generally assumed that any extraterrestrial life that might exist will be based on the ... > more
• Uranus
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  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
• Extrasolar Planets
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  Equatorial bulge

  An equatorial bulge is a planetological term which describes a bulge which a planet may have around its equator, distorting it into an oblate spheroid. Because of a planet's equatorial bulge, its ... > more
• Jupiter
  Solar System
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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

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