Other planets

In 2005 an object larger than Pluto was discovered in the Kuiper Belt. This discovery would call Pluto's planetary status into question and help create a new term, Dwarf Planet.

Astronomers have solved the mystery of how supermassive black holes formed early in the universe’s evolution by modeling the collision of giant primordial galaxies. “This the first work that demonstrates the formation of a supermassive cloud that is big enough to form a supermassive black hole,” said physicist Lucio Mayar of the Institute for Theoretical […]

♃ JUPITER ♃ - the fifth planet from our Sun is, by far, the largest planet in the Solar System – more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined. Explore Jupiter in depth at

There's no other planet in the Solar System that is redder than Mars; the red planet 🔴

You probably know that feeling when you‘re trying to understand how big the universe really is, but you end up with your head about to explode. It gets slightly easier when there‘s some kind of context available, so we can make comparisons and get an idea of scale. A while ago, a guy behind the Youtube channel named Yeti Dynamics created a video showing how big the planets in our solar system actually are, by placing them in a context we are familiar with: sky.

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What's your weight?

Using NASA images and logarithmic maps that wrangle huge expanses of space into...