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Can planets share an orbit? Find out!

Mercury, tired of the sun's solar flares, visits Venus to share its orbit. Join the adventure in SolarBalls, where fun ...
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Time-lapse orbit animation of OSIRIS-APEX's epic journey to asteroid Apophis

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
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Weird orbit of the James Webb telescope shown in NASA animation

The James Webb Space Telescope's (JWST) orbit is a bit strange. Unlike the legendary Hubble telescope, which circles Earth, JWST will orbit the sun. But as this animation from NASA's Goddard Space ...
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Earth To Temporarily Capture A 'Mini-Moon' - See An Orbit Animation

Earth captured asteroid 2024 PT5 back in September and expected to hold on to it till November according to Universidad Complutense de Madrid professor Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. See an orbit ...
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Here’s How Stars Orbit Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Black holes continue to amaze us for an endless number of reasons. The celestial objects are furious feasters of gas and they send ripples through the fabric of spacetime. Now, in another ...
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Watch Four Planets Spin Around a Star 130 Light-Years Away

Astronomical phenomena tend to occur over timespans that dwarf our human scale—a galaxy changes over millions and billions of years, not decades. But a new timelapse of observations of a distant star ...
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Celebrate the first day of fall with this gorgeous animation that shows how the Earth changes with the seasons

Astronomers believe that billions of years ago, a Mars-sized object smashed into Earth, knocking our planet over and leaving it tilted at an angle. That ancient bump is what caused the Earth's seasons ...