September 2016: Picture of the Month
Nicknamed as Tianyan, or the Eye of Heaven, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is built within a natural basin in the Guizhou province of China.
Nicknamed as Tianyan, or the Eye of Heaven, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) is built within a natural basin in the Guizhou province of China.
“Planets Around Expired Stars”, presented by Professor Yanqin Wu Abstract: Professor Yanqin Wu investigates the formation and evolution of planets, both inside and outside our own Solar System. Her current attention is devoted to a recently discovered puzzle, the presence of planetary systems around white dwarf stars, stars that have lived through their lives and…
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Our Sun is most likely formed some five billion years ago in a similar stellar nursery such as NGC7129.
From left to right, Callisto, Ganymede, Jupiter, Io, and Europa can be seen in this telescopic view alongside the Moon.
This view of the night side of Pluto was captured by New Horizons last July when the spacecraft was 21000 kilometres from the planet.
