Sentences with phrase «planet in our solar system recently»

The largest planet in our solar system recently put on an impressive display in its upper atmosphere.

Not exact matches

Using powerful telescopes, they can spot planets far outside of the reach of our solar system when they cross in front of their sun — it's how we recently found a triad of planets around a red sun 40 light - years away.

More recently, NASA's Kepler spacecraft found that the most common type of planet in the galaxy is something between the size of Earth and Neptune, which has no parallel in our solar system and was thought to be almost impossible to make.

Astronomers who recently discovered the so - called 10th planet have also found what may be the weirdest object in the solar system: a Pluto - size orbiter shaped like a squashed football.

Two California Institute of Technology researchers recently made the headlines when they published an article in the Astronomical Journal, announcing that they'd found evidence of a giant planet on the edge of our solar system, moving in a strange, elongated orbit as far as 93 billion miles (150 billion kilometers) from the sun.

To help in that exploratory effort, Hubble recently took the first visible - light photograph of a planet outside our solar system.

Our story begins in the Algol Solar System, a group of three planets that have recently come under the rule of a dark dictator named Lassic.